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Welcome to our Autumn–Winter 2017 catalogue. We’ve got a wonderful range of books publishing across all of our subject areas. Highlights include:

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Brian Willems draws on the science fiction of Cormac McCarthy, Paolo Bacigalupi, Neil Gaiman, China Miéville, Doris Lessing and Kim Stanley Robinson alongside speculative materialists including Graham Harman, Quentin Meillassoux and Jane Bennett. These writers and philosophers both develop and challenge anthropomorphism. By taking non-human to be as equally valid as humans, a more environmentally responsible and truthful view of the world takes place.

Willems looks at how nonsense and sense exist together in science fiction, the way that language is not a guarantee of personhood, the role of vision in relation to identity formation, the difference between metamorphosis and modulation, representations of non-human deaths and the function of plasticity within the Anthropocene.

Speculative Realism and Science FictionBrian Willems (University of Split)Imagines the end of anthropocentrism through contemporary science fiction and speculative realism

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Speculative RealismAugust 2017 240 pages

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Can philosophy explain our experience of the world without transforming its richness into reductive philosophical generalities?

Didier Debaise’s reading of Alfred North Whitehead shows what a philosophy that makes this possible looks like, how it works and what is at stake. He focuses in on Whitehead’s attempt to construct a metaphysical system of everything in the universe that exists whilst simultaneously claiming that it can account for every element of our experience: everything we enjoy, perceive, will and think.

Speculative EmpiricismRevisiting WhiteheadDidier Debaise (Free University of Brussels)Translated by Tomas Joseph Weber (University of Cambridge)Preface by Isabelle Stengers (Université Libre de Bruxelles)A radically new philosophy of experience and speculation, based on a reading of Whitehead’s Process and Reality


Speculative RealismSeptember 2017 208 pages

• Proposes a new reading of the relationship between the empirical and rational aspects of Alfred North Whitehead’s philosophy

• Explains what a ‘subject’ is in a metaphysical system which sees no ontological difference between humans and non-humans

• Provides a way of reconciling empiricism with speculative thought which will be of interest to those working in the philosophy of science

• Includes the original preface by Isabelle Stengers

Situated at the interface of philosophy, aesthetics and art history, this collection brings together a series of creative responses to the recent speculative turn in Continental philosophy. It gives you both a genealogy of speculative art history and a provocatively experimental counter-discourse of new speculative art histories.

Speculative Art HistoriesAnalysis at the LimitsEdited by Sjoerd van Tuinen (Erasmus University Rotterdam)A ‘counter-discourse’ of speculative approaches to art history


September 2017 352 pages25 colour illustrations

• The contributors include philosophers, art historians, architects and art practitioners

• Takes a generous definition of art, including architecture, cinema, dance and new media, and the philosophical trajectories they engage with

• Published in association with Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam

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Practising with DeleuzeDesign, Dance, Art, Writing, PhilosophySuzie Attiwill (RMIT University School of Architecture and Design), Terri Bird (Monash University), Andrea Eckersley (RMIT University), Antonia Pont (Deakin University) & Jon Roffe (University of New South Wales)The first systematic reading of Gilles Deleuze’s mature philosophy through the lens of creative practice

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October 2017 226 pages10 colour illustrations

A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy brings a renewed focus to the philosophical significance of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s later work, bringing together 15 leading international scholars to develop a close reading of their collaborative 1972 book A Thousand Plateaus. Each contributor addresses a different plateau, relating Deleuze and Guattari’s text to their own specific areas of philosophical expertise.

A Thousand Plateaus and PhilosophyEdited by Henry Somers-Hall (Royal Holloway, University of London), Jeffrey A. Bell (Southeastern Louisiana University) & James Williams (Deakin University)


January 2018 320 pages

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Six authors – two fine artists, a dancer, a creative writer, a designer and a philosopher – participate in the first systematic reading of Gilles Deleuze’s mature philosophy through the lens of creative practice. Practising with Deleuze is focused around key aspects of production: forming, framing, experiencing, encountering and practising. These multiple dialogues reflect the engagement of contemporary creative practices with the generative philosophy of Deleuze.

• Maintains a rigorous relationship to Deleuze’s texts including Difference and Repetition and A Thousand Plateaus

• Gives creative practitioners a way to engage creatively with the ideas of Deleuze

• Demonstrates a creative approach for philosophers to engage conceptually with arts practitioners

• With an introduction by Gregory Flaxman

Contributors

Miguel de Beistegui • Jeffrey A. Bell • Ronald Bogue • Ray Brassier • Eugene W. Holland • Emma Ingala • Simon O’Sullivan • Helen Palmer • Paul Patton • John Protevi • Daniel W. Smith • Henry Somers-Hall • Audrey Wasser • Nathan Widder • James Williams

As calls mount for resistance to recent political events, Simon Morgan Wortham explores the political implications and complexities of a psychoanalytic conception of resistance. Through close readings of a range of authors, both within and outwith the psychoanalytic tradition, the question of the politics of psychoanalysis itself is read back into the task of thinking resistance from a psychoanalytic point of view.

Morgan Wortham also reveals a new theory of phobic resistance at the centre of the politics of psychoanalysis, one that creates fresh possibilities for contemporary political analysis.

Resistance and PsychoanalysisImpossible DivisionsSimon Morgan Wortham (Kingston University)Rethinks how psychoanalysis, political thought and philosophy can be brought together as acts of resistance


IncitementsOctober 2017 224 pages

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Agamben’s Philosophical LineageEdited by Adam Kotsko (Shimer College, Chicago) & Carlo Salzani (Independent)A critical guide to the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben, organised around the philosophers and thinkers he draws on and critiquesOne of the greatest challenges Agamben presents to his readers is the vast and often bewildering range of sources he draws upon in his work. Looking at figures including Michel Foucault, St Paul, Nietzsche, the Marquis de Sade, Simone Weil and Hannah Arendt, this one-stop reference to Agamben’s influences covers 30 thinkers: his primary interlocutors, his secondary references, and the figures who lurk in the background of his arguments without being directly mentioned.


October 2017 352 pages

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ContributorsMathew Abbott • Jussi Backman • Paolo Bartoloni • Jeffrey Bernstein • Mårten Björk • Susan Brophy • Virgil Brower • Claire Colebrook • Colby Dickinson • Ingrid Diran • Adi Efal-Lautenschläger • Alysia Garrison • John Grumley • Christian Grünnagel • Nadine Hartmann • Ted Jennings • Adam Kotsko • Vanessa Lemm • Beatrice Marovich • Dave Mesing • Julia Ng • Mika Ojakangas • Sergei Prozorov • Frances Restuccia • Carlo Salzani • Anke Snoek • Jessica Whyte • Henrik Wilberg

This collection presents, for the first time in English, Jean-François Lyotard’s major essays on film: ‘Acinema’, ‘The Unconscious as Mise-en-scène’, ‘Two Metamorphoses of the Seductive in Cinema’ and ‘The Idea of a Sovereign Film’.

These are complemented by eight critical essays by philosophers and film theorists on Lyotard’s film work and influence, an introductory essay by leading French scholar Jean-Michel Durafour on Lyotard’s film–philosophy, an overview of Lyotard’s practical film projects written by his collaborators Claudine Eizykman and Guy Fihman, and the synopsis for a later film project Memorial Immemorial, which Lyotard proposed but was never produced.

AcinemasLyotard’s Philosophy of FilmEdited by Graham Jones (Monash University) & Ashley Woodward (University of Dundee)The first major survey of Lyotard’s contribution to film theory, combining his original essays with new critical works by leading scholars


September 2017 232 pages5 b+w illustrations

Contributors

Kiff Bamford • Keith Crome • Jean-Michel Durafour • Claudine Eizykman • Guy Fihman • Julie Gaillard • Jon Hackett • Vlad Ionescu • Graham Jones • Peter W. Milne • Lisa Trahair • Susana Viegas • James Williams • Ashley Woodward

Thomas Reid on Mathematics and Natural PhilosophyEdited by Paul Wood (University of Victoria, Canada)Reconstructs Reid’s career as a mathematician and natural philosopher for the first time

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August 2017 488 pages

Thomas Reid was an intellectual polymath whose interests encompassed all aspects of Enlightenment thought. Paul Wood reconstructs for the first time Reid’s career as a mathematician and natural philosopher, and shows how he grappled with various aspects of the scientific legacy of Sir Isaac Newton.

This critical edition reproduces the drafts and printed text of Reid’s earliest publication, ‘An Essay on Quantity’, along with a selection of his mathematical papers, including the significant series of manuscripts dealing with Euclid’s problematic parallels postulate. Other manuscripts illustrate his skill as an observational astronomer, his work in optics dealing with the aberration of light, his speculations on electricity and his engagement with Lavoisier’s revolutionary chemical system.


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• 10 critical essays challenge speculative realism from perspectives ranging from German idealism to phenomenology and deconstruction

• Rejects the current anti-realist reading of key post-Kantian thinkers

• Proposes alternative forms of realism to speculative realism or object-oriented ontology

New Perspectives in Ontology

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• 11 essays form a new examination of Whitehead’s Barbour-Page lectures, published as Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect in 1927

• Gives you exciting insights into the contemporary scientific, cultural and technological implications of Whitehead’s symbolism

• Contributors: Jeffrey Bell • Roland Faber • Michael Halewood • Luke Higgins • Catherine Keller • Sheri Kling • Hyo-Dong Lee • Beatrice Marovich • Adam Nocek • Joseph Petek • Keith Robinson • Steven Shaviro

Rethinking Whitehead’s SymbolismThought, Language, CultureEdited by Roland Faber (Claremont School of Theology), Jeffrey A. Bell (Southeastern Louisiana University) & Joseph Petek (Claremont School of Theology)

September 2017Hb £75.00 9781474429566

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Continental Realism and Its DiscontentsEdited by Marie-Eve Morin (University of Alberta)

• Illuminates the Common Sense theory of perception with a new reading of Thomas Reid

• Formalises the problem of secondary qualities, the most important objection facing common sense direct realism today

• Engages with a historically wide range of thinkers, from early moderns to the present

• Proposes a new philosophy of colour, where colours are objective, visible properties of mind-external entities

Thomas Reid and the Problem of Secondary QualitiesChristopher A. Shrock (Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics)

October 2017 Hb £75.00 9781474417846

264 pages2 b+w illustrations

Edinburgh Studies in Scottish Philosophy

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• A new reading of Simone de Beauvoir through a Deleuzian lens, with a focus on The Second Sex

• Clarifies the elements of Deleuze’s thought – alone and in collaboration with Guattari – most useful to contemporary feminists simultaneously rethinking the becoming of gender and the becoming of philosophy

• Looks at de Beauvoir’s phenomenology, the place of recognition in The Second Sex, the philosophical issues in her novels and the early interest in Bergson and Leibniz she showed in her student diaries

Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of IndividuationThe Problem of The Second SexLaura Hengehold (Case Western Reserve University)

September 2017 Hb £75.009781474418874

256 pages

• Focuses on the central striking claim that there is something rather than nothing – that all necessity is consequent

• Engages with a wide range of ancient as well as contemporary philosophers including Quentin Meillassoux, Richard Kearney, Friedrich Schelling, Émile Boutroux and Markus Gabriel

• Argues that even God, while necessary according to essence, is utterly contingent with respect to existence


October 2017 Hb £75.00 9781474428194

The Contingency of NecessityReason and God as Matters of FactTyler Tritten (Gonzaga University)

352 pages

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• Tracks the sublime art movement from its beginnings in Kant to its flowering in the late 20th and early 21st centuries

• Constructs a contemporary aesthetics of the sublime from the work of Jean-François Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Rancière and the recent Speculative Realism movement

• Traces a new genealogy of post-war art that dissolves the modern/postmodern rupture

Crosscurrents

August 2017 Hb £75.009780748669998


Sublime ArtTowards an Aesthetics of the FutureStephen Zepke (Independent Researcher)


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Cosmo-nationalismAmerican, French and German PhilosophyOisin Keohane (University of Dundee)

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January 2018 Hb £75.00 9781474431156

256 pages

• Asks what it means to assign a nationality to philosophy – as in French philosophy or American philosophy

• Builds on Jacques Derrida’s unpublished seminars on philosophical nationalism

• Claims that national philosophies are a variant of some form of cosmo-nationalism

• Shows that cosmo-nationalism is a strain of nationalism that uses ideas in cosmopolitanism to advance the aims of one particular nation

• 12 essays build on Gadamer’s well-known discussions with Heidegger, Habermas and Derrida to new dialogues with Mahatma Gandhi, Christine Korsgaard, Charles Mills and others

• Applies Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics to new fields including narrative medicine, biotechnology, memory, place and body language

• Contributors: Lauren Swayne Barthold • Steven Paul Cauchon • Peter Fristedt • Jeff Malpas • Whitney Mannies • Leah McClimans • Isaac Ariail Reed • Lorenzo C. Simpson • Monica Vilhauer • Georgia Warnke • Santiago Zabala

• Rewrites and re-envisions Deleuze’s and Baudrillard’s relationships with Marxism and each other, from their breakdowns to their breakthroughs

• Analyses a wide range of novels and films to bring renewed Marxian readings to cyberpunk and biopunk texts previously theorised by Baudrillard or Deleuze

• Theorises the shifts in capitalism, science, technology, psychoanalysis, literature and cinema and media studies

Deleuze and BaudrillardFrom Cyberpunk to BiopunkSean McQueen (Monash University, Australia)

Plateaus – New Directions in Deleuze Studies

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248 pages

Inheriting GadamerNew Directions in Philosophical HermeneuticsEdited by Georgia Warnke (University of California, Riverside)

• A new concept of nature based on time and technology that escapes the nature/artifice distinction that has mired the philosophy of nature for so long

• Deploys conceptual resources from Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault and Leroi-Gourhan

• Critiques the modern origins of the epistemological configuration of nature and shows that a new concept of time is necessary to reinstall the subject within its concrete ecology

August 2017Pb £19.999781474425797

184 pages

Time, Technology and EnvironmentAn Essay on the Philosophy of Nature

Marco Altamirano (Louisiana State University)

Plateaus – New Directions in Deleuze Studies

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• A critical approach to contemporary luxury studies focusing on aesthetic, design-led and media practice with key case studies

• A groundbreaking examination of the relations between historical and, crucially, contemporary ideas of luxury

• Gives you a technoculturally inspired survey of the mediated arts and design, and the new philosophical tools being developed to interpret the socioeconomic order that is redefining the concept of luxury in the 21st century

Critical Luxury StudiesArt, Design, MediaEdited by John Armitage & Joanne Roberts (both Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton)

August 2017 Pb £19.999781474425827

242 pages4 colour & 16 b+w illustrations

• Demonstrates what a new generation of scholars are just discovering: that Lyotard’s incisive posthumanism is essential for current debates in the humanities

• Explains Lyotard’s specific interventions in areas such as information theory, new media arts and the changing nature of the human

• Assesses Lyotard’s thought in relation to contemporary thinkers including Bernard Stiegler, Luciano Floridi, Quentin Meillassoux and Paul Virilio

August 2017Pb £19.999781474425803

224 pages

Lyotard and the Inhuman ConditionReflections on Nihilism, Information and Art

Ashley Woodward (University of Dundee)

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• 12 essays reanimate the dialogue between interdisciplinary scholars and practicing artists that originally gave birth to visual culture

• Includes a new translation of Nancy’s essay, ‘The Image: Mimesis and Methexis’, which reveals how Nancy’s work informs, challenges and inspires our encounters with visual culture

• Contributors: Adrienne Janus • Carrie Giunta • Chris Heppell • Christopher Watkin • Lorna Collins • Martin Crowley • Peter Banki • Phillip Warnell • Robert Luzar

August 2017Pb £19.999781474425810


Nancy and Visual CultureEdited by Carrie Giunta (Freelance) & Adrienne Janus (University of Aberdeen)


• 12 essays give you new perspectives on Agamben’s relevance to economy and political action: the two ideas that frame the problems of global politics

• With new analyses of Agamben’s recent work on government and his relationship to the revolutionary tradition

• Contributors: Daniel McLoughlin • Giorgio Agamben • Jason E. Smith • Jessica Whyte • Justin Clemens • Mathew Abbott • Miguel Vatter • Nicholas Heron • Sergei Prozorov • Simone Bignall • Steven DeCaroli

Agamben and Radical PoliticsEdited by Daniel McLoughlin (University of New South Wales)

August 2017 Pb £19.999781474402644

280 pages

new in paperback, hardback, ebookCritical Connections

• 13 original essays engage with Rancière’s accounts of literature, putting his conceptual apparatus to work in literary criticism

• Consolidates, evaluates and critiques Rancière’s work on literature

• Contributors: Arne De Boever • Justin Clemens • Oliver Feltham • Elaine Freedgood • Andrew Gibson • Grace Hellyer • Eric Méchoulan • Julian Murphet • Bert Olivier • Jacques Rancière • Alison Ross • Emily Steinlight

August 2017 Pb £19.999781474402583

Ranciere and LiteratureFrom Tradition to DifferenceEdited by Grace Hellyer & Julian Murphet (both University of New South Wales)

288 pages

• 13 essays explore Bruno Latour’s legal theory from a variety of disciplinary perspectives

• Combines analytical tools drawn from Latour’s actor-network theory with his philosophical anthropology of the Moderns

• Contributors: Bruno Latour • Cédric Moreau de Bellaing • David S. Caudill • David Saunders • Faith E. Barter • François Cooren • Graham Harman • Kyle McGee • Laurent de Sutter • Mariana Valverde • Niels van Dijk • Serge Gutwirth

Latour and the Passage of LawEdited by Kyle McGee (Delaware)

August 2017Pb £24.999780748697915

368 pages

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• A comparative critique of the human in Alain Badiou, Quentin Meillassoux, Catherine Malabou, Michel Serres and Bruno Latour

• Shows how the figure of the human is being transformed and reworked in contemporary French philosophy

• Draws out both the promises and perils inherent in these attempts to rethink humanity’s relation to ‘nature’ and ‘culture’, to the objects that surround us, to the possibility of social and political change, to ecology, and even to our own brains

August 2017Pb £24.99 9781474425834

French Philosophy TodayNew Figures of the Human in Badiou, Meillassoux, Malabou, Serres and LatourChristopher Watkin (Monash University)

272 pages


• Defends the programme of film–philosophy through the cinema of Abbas Kiarostami

• Demonstrates that the Iranian director’s movies exemplify what has been called ‘cinematic thinking’: the idea that film is capable of a certain type of thought

• Focuses on Kiarostami’s recent films – Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us, ABC Africa, Ten, Five, Shirin, Certified Copy and Like Someone in Love

Abbas Kiarostami and Film-PhilosophyMathew Abbott (Federation University Australia)

February 2018 Pb £19.999781474432290

176 pages


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• Reconstructs Deleuze’s philosophy as transcendental empiricism: two philosophies previously seen as contradictory

• Demonstrates that Deleuze takes up and radicalises the empiricist school of thought, developing a systematic alternative to the mainstreams of modern continental philosophy

• Draws on Deleuze’s readings of Hume, Spinoza, Bergson and Nietzsche, and his arguments against Kant, Hegel, Husserl and Heidegger

February 2018 Pb £24.999781474432252

Gilles Deleuze’s Transcendental EmpiricismFrom Tradition to DifferenceMarc Rölli (Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts) Translated by Peter Hertz-Ohmes (SUNY Oswego)

328 pages

• The first English language, in-depth presentation of Gaston Bachelard’s work: epistemology, poetic imagination and temporality

• Shows that Bachelard was a seminal figure in contemporary French philosophy who, together with Michel Foucault, Georges Canguilhem and Jean Cavaillès, shaped the ‘French epistemological’ school of philosophy of science

• Explores an old philosophical tradition – atomism – that Bachelard’s thought opens up

Gaston Bachelard: A Philosophy of the SurrealZbigniew Kotowicz (University of Lisbon)

February 2018 Pb £19.999781474432238

224 pages

• Brings together aesthetics, contemporary North American fiction, Gilles Deleuze, narrative theory and the recent speculative turn to answer the question, ‘what is narrative?

• Close readings include: Ana Castillo, The Mixquiahuala Letters (1986); Michael Ondaatje, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (1970); Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist (1999); Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves (2000)

Narrative and BecomingRidvan Askin (University of Basel)

February 2018 Pb £19.99 9781474432214

• Begins and ends with a powerful claim: Lucretian atomism produced Deleuzianism

• Fills a significant gap in Deleuze studies: Deleuze’s relationship to ancient philosophy

• Shows how Lucretius resonates throughout all Deleuze’s writings: from immanent ontology to affirmative ethics, and from dynamic materialism to the generation of thought itself

February 2018Pb £24.99 9781474432306

The Deleuze–Lucretius EncounterRyan J. Johnson (Elon University)

224 pages 288 pages4 b+w illustrations

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• Rigorously examines the theologico-political works of F. W. J. von Schelling and sets his thought against Hegel’s more dominant approach

• Intervenes in contemporary debates on post-secularism and the return to religion

• Das shows that religion, in an essential sense, always opens up infinitude from the heart of finitude, to an irreducible outside of the profane order of worldly hegemonies

The Political Theology of SchellingSaitya Brata Das ( Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi)

February 2018Pb £24.99 9781474432221

276 pages



• 12 new essays break the myth that Deleuze and Lacan were foreign, even hostile, to each other

• Arranged around their three mutual spheres of enquiry: ontology/topology, critique and clinic

• Contributors: Lorenzo Chiesa • Guillaume Collett • Adrian Johnston • Peter Klepec • Paul M. Livingston • Boštjan Nedoh • Laurent de Sutter • Samo Tomšič • Tadej Troha • Scott Wilson • Andreja Zevnik • Alenka Zupančič

Lacan and DeleuzeA Disjunctive SynthesisEdited by Boštjan Nedoh (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts) & Andreja Zevnik (University of Manchester)

February 2018 Pb £19.99 9781474432276

240 pages


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• Connects Cold War technologies and concepts to 21st century arts, society and culture

• Draws on theorists such as Virilio, Derrida, Irigaray, Kittler, Baudrillard, Foucault, Serres, Stiegler, Sloterdijk and Schmitt

• Contributors: John Beck • Ryan Bishop • Ele Carpenter • Fabienne Collignon • Mark Coté • Daniel Grausam • Ken Hollings • Adrian Mackenzie • Jussi Parikka • John W. P. Phillips • Adam Piette • James Purdon • Aura Satz • Neal WhiteTechnicities

February 2018 Pb £24.999781474432245

Cold War LegaciesSystems, Theory, AestheticsEdited by John Beck (University of Westminster) & Ryan Bishop (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton)

320 pages20 colour illustrations

• Draws on a host of previously unknown letters, manuscripts and other primary source materials

• Significantly adds to our understanding of Robertson’s life as a Scottish Presbyterian clergyman, historian and Principle of the University of Edinburgh in the midst of the Enlightenment

• Shows how Robertson differed from his contemporaries, such as Voltaire, Hume and Gibbon, by using Enlightenment thought to strengthen religion, not attack it

The Life of William RobertsonMinister, Historian, and PrincipalJeffrey R. Smitten (Utah State University)

February 2018 Pb £24.999781474432283

280 pages


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The Edinburgh Critical History of Nineteenth-Century Christian TheologyEdited by Daniel Whistler (University of Liverpool and Westfälische-Wilhelms Universität)A conceptual survey of 19th-century theology and its relation to philosophy, natural science and social transformationsFrom the shadow of the Kantian critique to the Oxford debates over Darwinism that shook the discipline to the core, and from the death of God to the rise of new Evangelical movements, 19th-century theology was fundamentally reshaped by both internal struggles and external developments.

This critical history charts this reshaping by focusing on the emerging theological themes of the period that cross authors, disciplines and nations. A team of internationally leading scholars map lines of thought from Romanticism through Hegelianism and positivism, exploring the richness of theology’s interactions with anthropology, art, industry, literature, philosophy, science and society.

• Repositions 19th-century theology as a vital series of intellectual experiments at the heart of the intellectual discourse of the era

• Takes an interdisciplinary approach, focusing on developments such as philosophical speculation and positivism, natural selection and social change

• Key controversies, often consigned to disparate theological sub-fields, are arranged thematically

Contributors:

Ruth Barton • Roland Boer • Joshua Cockayne • Susan Curtis • Benjamin Dawson • Andrew W. Hass • Joseph P. Lawrence • Gerard Loughlin • Lissa McCullough • George Pattison • Thomas Pfau • Steven Shakespeare • Katie Terezakis • Katya Tolstaya • Daniel Whistler • Johannes Zachhuber • Bennett Zon • Regula Zwahlen


The Edinburgh Critical History of Christian Theology November 2017 352 pages

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American Independent CinemaSecond EditionYannis Tzioumakis (University of Liverpool)A history of independent cinema in the US from an industrial perspectiveThis introduction to American Independent Cinema offers both a comprehensive industrial and economic history of the sector from the early twentieth century to the present and a study of key individual films, filmmakers and film companies.

Ordered chronologically, beginning with independent filmmaking in the studio, moving to the 1950s and 1960s and finishing with contemporary American independent cinema, readers will develop an understanding of the complex dynamic relations between independent and mainstream American cinema.

Pb 9781474416849 £24.99Hb 9781474416825 £80.00Formats available: hardback, paperback, ebook

September 2017 352 pages15 b+w illustrations

• Thoroughly updated to include developments from the mid-2000s onwards

• A new chapter on American Independent Cinema in the Age of Media Convergence

• A new prologue• An enhanced epilogue and bibliography

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The Birth of the American Horror FilmGary D. Rhodes (Queen’s University in Belfast)Explains how the American horror movie came into existence


January 2018 384 pages113 colour illustrations

Who’s in the Money?The Great Depression Musicals and Hollywood’s New DealHarvey G. Cohen (King’s College London)Explores the connections and tensions between Warner Bros. and the Roosevelt administration

Harry and Jack Warner supported President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal legislation in their film marketing during 1933, and themes and plot points from their successful series of Great Depression Musicals from that year (42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933, Footlight Parade) resonated deeply with Roosevelt’s policies and philosophies. However, behind the scenes they were attempting to reverse Roosevelt’s policies within their studio and their industry. Using dozens of newly unearthed primary sources, this book examines the bitter and little known struggle in Hollywood and Washington D.C. during 1933 to create a National Recovery Administration (NRA) code of practice for the motion picture industry.


Traditions in American CinemaDecember 2017 240 pages10 b+w illustrations

2nd Edition

• Contains extensive primary research on the creation of the NRA’s motion picture code, including many new insights about the process

• Gives students of U.S. history a new and entertaining way to examine the legacy of the Great Depression, the Hollywood studio system and President Roosevelt’s New Deal program

• Extensive analysis of the historical significance of the Warner Bros.’ Great Depression Musicals

The origin and development of the horror film has been a neglected subject for what is arguably one of the world’s most popular film genres. Using thousands of primary sources and long-unseen illustrations, The Birth of the American Horror Film examines a history that begins in colonial Salem, taking an interdisciplinary approach to explore the influence of horror-themed literature, theatre and visual culture in America, and how that context established an amorphous structural foundation for films produced between 1895 and 1915.

• The first scholarly book dedicated to the birth of the American horror film

• Bridges scholarship on Horror Studies and Early Cinema

• Can be used in courses focusing on film history, genre and horror


FilM studiEs

• A comparative approach to contemporary popular Nordic genre film

• Discusses a range of internationally celebrated examples from the increasingly popular ‘Nordic noir’ genre, from TV shows and films like The Bridge (2011) and Insomnia (1997) to high concept ‘video generation’ productions such as Iron Sky (2012)

• The first book-length study in English of a national corpus of state-sponsored informational film

• Combines close textual analysis of a broad range of films with detailed accounts of their commissioning, production, distribution and reception in Denmark and abroad

• Considers a broad range of genres, including industrial process films, public information films, art films and the essay film

Short Films from a Small NationDanish Informational Cinema 1935-1965Catherine Claire Thomson (University College, London)

February 2018 Pb £24.999781474431149

January 2018Hb £75.009781474424134

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• The first monograph to focus on transnational French-language road cinema from, or co-produced, by France, Belgium and Switzerland

• Examines the unique formal and thematic qualities of French-language European road movies in relation to American and European traditions

• Compares and contrasts more positive vantage points on cinematic mobility with recent migrant cinema

August 2017 Pb £19.999781474426015

• Focuses on two important ‘cinematic megacities’ (Rio de Janeiro and Mumbai) to outline how global film cultural currents become modified according to a specific local context

• Combines approaches from cultural, globalisation and film studies to reconstruct world cinema’s ‘planet of slums’

• Adds a new perspective on cultural (world cinema) and social (cityward migration) globalisation processes

• Provides an introduction to the coming-of-age film as a genre

• Includes short, succinct chapters on each of the major New Zealand coming-of-age films made to date, such as An Angel at My Table, Heavenly Creatures, Once Were Warriors and Boy

• Offers a detailed appraisal of each individual film in terms of genesis, themes, style, and relation to its historical and cultural contexts

Coming-of-Age Cinema in New ZealandGenre, Gender and AdaptationAlistair Fox (University of Otago)

Traditions in World Cinema

September 2017Hb £75.009781474429443



208 pages

Nordic Genre FilmSmall Nation Film Cultures in the Global MarketplaceEdited by Tommy Gustafsson (Linnaeus University) & Pietari Kääpä (University of Stirling)

French-language Road CinemaBorders, Diasporas, Migration and ‘New Europe’Michael Gott (University of Cincinnati)

Slums on ScreenWorld Cinema and the Planet of SlumsIgor Krstić (University of Reading)

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August 2017 Pb £24.999781474425933




• Brings a new perspective to the films of Latin America’s transnational auteurs

• A major contribution towards understanding how genres function across different cultures

• Includes close textual analysis of six filmmakers: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Toro, Fernando Meirelles, Walter Salles and Juan José Campanella

New Transnationalisms in Contemporary Latin American CinemasDolores Tierney (University of Sussex)

January 2018Hb £75.009780748645732

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FilM studiEs

• Examines Spain’s contribution to international interest in Gothic culture, film and literature

• Explores popular Spanish successes such as The Shadow of the Wind and The Others, as well as directors such as Pedro Almodóvar (The Skin I Live In)

• Considers images and themes including the mad surgeon and the vulnerable body, the role of the haunted house and the heritage biopics of Francisco de Goya

Contemporary Spanish GothicAnn Davies (University of Stirling)

February 2018Pb £19.999781474431934

208 pages

• Examines the ways in which Russian texts are altered in order to suit new cinematic environments

• Explores the role of ideological, political, and other cultural pressures in the task of transforming literary narratives into cinematic ones

• Provides points of scholarly reference for over twenty-five films

Border CrossingRussian Literature into FilmEdited by Alexander Burry (Ohio State University) & Frederick White (Utah Valley University)

August 2017Pb £24.999781474425919

• Offers a new perspective on contemporary Russian film in the symbolic mode

• Provides a thorough examination of works by established directors such as Sokurov, Zviagintsev and Zel’dovich, as well as lesser-known filmmakers like Balabanov, Fedorchenko and Kalatozishvili

• One of the first books to explore Russian cinema in the new millennium

August 2017Pb £24.999781474425957

Contemporary Russian CinemaSymbols of a New EraVlad Strukov (University of Leeds)



• A reappraisal of the cultural-political strands that fed into, and emanate from, the Spaghetti Western

• A rigorous historical, cultural and political enquiry, engaging with current scholarly trends

• Fresh interrogations of the myriad ways in which the Spaghetti Western has influenced contemporary filmmaking practice across national industries

Spaghetti Westerns at the CrossroadsStudies in Relocation, Transition and AppropriationEdited by Austin Fisher (Bournemouth University)

August 2017 Pb £24.999781474425926

312 pages



• A critical exploration of the human body in Eastern European and Russian film

• Draws on a range of theoretical approaches influenced by Gilles Deleuze, Laura Marks, Michel Foucault and Mikhail Bakhtin

• Traces the representation of the body across temporal boundaries, from the post-war era to the present day, to interrogate the changes that historical factors such as the collapse of communism have brought

The Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and RussiaBetween Pain and PleasureEdited by Ewa Mazierska (University of Central Lancashire), Matilda Mroz (University of Sussex) & Elzbieta Ostrowska (University of Alberta)

February 2018 Pb £24.999781474431941



• A critical re-examination of four major realist film theorists: John Grierson, Siegfried Kracauer, André Bazin and Georg Lukács

• A major new resource on the major realist film theorists for students and scholars

• Aims to return the realist paradigm of film theory to the forefront of academic enquiry

• Includes contributions from a wide range of international scholars

The Major Realist Film TheoristsA Critical AnthologyEdited by Ian Aitken (Hong Kong Baptist University)

August 2017 Pb £19.999781474425964

240 pages



FilM studiEs

• The first internationally comparative and crosscutting study of LGBTQ film, with audience research at its core

• Looks at the cross-border impact of the auteur and big-name directors

• Extensively covers independent and documentary film production as well as commercially-pitched feature films

August 2017Pb £19.999781474425995

French and Spanish Queer FilmAudiences, Communities and Cultural ExchangeChris Perriam & Darren Waldron (both University of Manchester)


• Explores the intersection of the vampire and zombie with 21st Century dystopian and post-apocalyptic cinema

• Offers a detailed discussion of the development of zombie television

• Provides a detailed examination of Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend, including the novel, script, adaptations and the BBFC’s response to Matheson’s script

Undead ApocalypseVampires and Zombies in the 21st CenturyStacey Abbott (University of Roehampton)

February 2018 Pb £19.999780748694914


• Examines the emergence of gay male and female heterosexual alliances within contemporary media

• Defines new historical approaches in exploring the history of queer representation within the media

• Case studies include the films of Doris Day and Rock Hudson, the performances of Kenneth Williams, television shows such as Glee, Sex and the City and Will and Grace

Straight Girls and Queer GuysThe Hetero Media Gaze in Film and TelevisionChristopher Pullen (Bournemouth University)

August 2017Pb £19.999781474425865

• A thorough examination of British horror film production in the twenty-first century

• Combines industrial research and primary interview material with detailed textual analysis

• Considers high-profile theatrical releases such as The Descent, Shaun of the Dead and The Woman in Black, as well as more obscure films such as The Devil ’s Chair and Resurrecting the Street Walker

August 2017Pb £14.999781474429399

Contemporary British Horror CinemaIndustry, Genre and SocietyJohnny Walker (Northumbria University)


• A rich new exploration of interwar women’s fictions and their complex intersections with cinema

• Draws upon new archival research, industrial analysis and close textual readings

• Case studies include the work of Winifred Holtby, Stella Gibbons, Elizabeth Bowen, Jean Rhys, Elinor Glyn, C. A. Lejeune and Iris Barry

Off to the PicturesCinemagoing, Women’s Writing and Movie Culture in Interwar BritainLisa Stead (University of East Anglia)

February 2018Pb £19.999781474431910

232 pages

• The first comprehensive history of the birth and development of Hollywood’s tangled relationship with American intelligence

• Offers new perspectives on major filmmakers like Darryl F. Zanuck, Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford

• Takes an interdisciplinary approach, synthesising literatures and methodologies from diplomatic history, film studies and cultural theory

August 2017Pb £24.999781474425940


In Secrecy’s ShadowThe OSS and CIA in Hollywood Cinema 1941-1979

Simon Willmetts (University of Hull)



Traditions in American Cinema


FilM studiEs

• A comprehensive critical survey of the impact of 9/11 on Film

• Includes fifteen critically informed but vibrant essays by some of the foremost scholars in American Cinema

• Case studies include: American Sniper (2014), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Spectre (2015), The Hateful Eight (2015), Lincoln (2012), The Mist (2007), Children of Men (2006), Edge of Tomorrow (2014) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

February 2018 Pb £24.999781474431958

American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11Edited by Terence McSweeney (Southampton Solent University)


• Introduces the people, processes and frameworks of independent digital feature-filmmaking in contemporary Britain

• Illuminates how digital transformations are impacting working practices, cultures, opportunities and structures

• Provides a unique case study of the entire life cycle of Sally Potter’s latest film from idea to distribution, through to audience reception

From Film Practice to Data ProcessProduction Aesthetics and Representational Practices of a Film Industry in TransitionSarah Atkinson (King’s College London)

January 2018Hb £75.009780748693580

288 pages 70 b+w illustrations

• An innovative analysis of the Hollywood Teen Movie from a variety of key theoretical perspectives

• Provides unprecedented close textual analysis of key films in the genre, allowing for a reconsideration of their significance

• Case studies include: Rebel Without a Cause, Grease, Heathers, Twilight, Mean Girls and Spider-man

Rethinking the Hollywood Teen MovieGender, Genre and IdentityFrances Smith (University College London)

October 2017Hb £75.009781474413091

• Examines how Hollywood responded to and reflected the political and social changes that America experienced during the 1930s

• Includes case studies of stars like Shirley Temple, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Cary Grant – and investigates why they became popular in the 1930s

• Explores how Hollywood offered positive representations of working women

February 2018Pb £24.999781474431927

Hollywood and the Great DepressionAmerican Film, Politics and Society in the 1930sEdited by Iwan Morgan (University College London) & Philip John Davies (British Library)



• A chronological study examining sound and gender in mainstream US film from 1934 to 2012

• Case studies include: Mildred Pierce, Full Metal Jacket, Alien, Adam’s Rib, Imitation of Life, Bridesmaids and Bachelorette

• Engages with, and builds on, the work of key film sound theorists including Michel Chion, Kaja Silverman and Sarah Kozloff

Talkies, Road Movies and Chick FlicksGender, Genre and Film Sound in American CinemaHeidi Wilkins (Independent Scholar)

August 2017 Pb £19.999781474425902


• The first book-length study of this important American screenwriter, producer and director

• Case studies include Destination Tokyo (1943), The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965), Broken Arrow (1950) and 3:10 to Yuma (1957)

• Takes a variety of theoretical approaches from an international team of authors to offer a sustained, nuanced case for the importance of Daves in the history of American cinema

August 2017Pb £24.999781474425988

240 pages

ReFocus: The Films of Delmer DavesEdited by Matthew Carter (Manchester Metropolitan University) & Andrew Nelson (Montana State University)

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ReFocus: The American Directors Series


FilM studiEs

• A collection of interdisciplinary essays, collected for the first time, on the work of filmmaker and screenwriter Amy Heckerling

• Considers questions of gender, genre and identity, as well as the role of women in Hollywood

• Case studies include the director’s seminal works Clueless and Fast Times at Ridgemont High

August 2017Pb £24.999781474425896

ReFocus: The Films of Amy HeckerlingEdited by Frances Smith (University College London) & Timothy Shary (Southern New Hampshire University)


• Explores Barrymore’s work from a number of angles including: performance, theatricality, stardom, gender, masculinity, sexuality, psychoanalysis, voice, and queer studies

• Focuses on the actor’s film work as well as his roles in theatre

• Situates the actor’s roles and career within the context of early American film history

Hamlet Lives in HollywoodJohn Barrymore and the Acting Tradition OnscreenEdited by Murray Pomerance (Ryerson University) & Steven Rybin (Minnesota State University)

September 2017 Hb £75.009781474411394


• Analyses what makes an acting performance excellent, through a range of examples from American film

• Provides case studies of some of the most important performances in American cinema history by actors of extreme capability, written by prominent scholars

• Examines the relation of performance to genre, authorship, cultural identity, and the evolution of international cinema history

Close UpGreat Cinematic performances Volume 1: AmericaEdited by Murray Pomerance (Ryerson University) & Kyle Stevens (Appalachian State University)

January 2018Hb £80.009781474417006

• Analyses what makes an acting performance excellent, through a range of examples from different national cinemas

• Provides case studies of some of the most important performances in world cinema history by actors of extreme capability, written by prominent scholars

• Examines the relation of performance to genre, authorship, cultural identity, and the evolution of international cinema history

January 2018Hb £80.009781474417037

Close UpGreat Cinematic Performances Volume 2: InternationalEdited by Murray Pomerance (Ryerson University) & Kyle Stevens (Appalachian State University)


• A unique book-length study of sculpture and cinema

• Explores the cinematic form and function of sculpture in 8 case studies that represent diverse genres and traditions throughout film history

• Features an extensive reference gallery of 150 films with short entries on each

• Innovatively brings together two media, their artistic traditions and theoretical paradigms

Screening StatuesSculpture and CinemaSteven Jacobs (Ghent University), Susan Felleman (University of South Carolina), Vito Adriaensens (Columbia University) & Lisa Colpaert (Cinea at the Royal Belgian Film Archive)

September 2017Hb £75.009781474410892


• Concentrates on four major artists: Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Mona Hatoum and Douglas Gordon

• Includes significant research on under-valued yet common popular cinema cultures (peep shows, drive-ins, home movies and CinemaScope)

August 2017Pb £19.999781474425971


Screen PresenceCinema Culture and the Art of Warhol, Rauschenberg, Hatoum and Gordon

Stephen Monteiro (American University of Paris)

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Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality

International Film Stars

Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality

International Film Stars


• Explores ways in which nihilism is encountered, confronted, and overcome in contemporary film

• A unique and fresh perspective on the ways that nihilism can be a positive phenomenon that acts as a spur to human reflection and creativity

• Includes original, in-depth analyses of a variety of international films such as: Breaking the Waves, NEDs, The Human Centipede and Nymphomaniac

September 2017Hb £75.009781474424561

Cinematic NihilismEncounters, Confrontations, OvercomingsJohn Marmysz (College of Marin in Kentfield, California)


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FilM studiEs

• An inquiry into the convergences of avant-garde film, trans-cultural media arts, experimental ethnography and curatorial practice in contemporary Mexico

• An engaging contribution to current discussions on the futures of the contemporary image and on the so-called ‘anthropological turn’ in visual and moving-image studies

• The conceptualization of a specific category of the ‘Image’, namely the ‘Incurable-Image’

August 2017 Pb £19.999781474425889

The Incurable-ImageCurating Post-Mexican Film and Media ArtsTarek Elhaik (University of California, Davis)

198 pages6 b+w illustrations 13 colour illustrations

• Uncovers new influences on Chabrol, including Balzac, Magritte and Kubrick

• Offers original insights into Chabrol’s most famous film, Le Boucher

• Analyses some of Chabrol’s latest, little studied films (La Fleur du mal, La Demoiselle d’honneur, La Fille coupée en deux and Bellamy)

• Engages with Foucault’s concept of heterotopia and Deleuze’s ‘crystal-image’

• Surveys Chabrol’s influence and legacy on the contemporary French thriller

Claude Chabrol’s Aesthetics of OpacityCatherine Dousteyssier-Khoze (Durham University)

December 2017 Hb £75.009780748692606


• An innovative and wide-ranging collection, this book re-canonises the classical Expressionist aesthetic

• Explores films that were produced in the silent and early sound era in countries ranging from France, Sweden and Hungary to the United States and Mexico

• Case studies include key German films like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), as well as more obscure titles like Nerven (1919)

Expressionism in the CinemaEdited by Olaf Brill (Freelance Writer and Editor) & Gary D. Rhodes (Queen’s University in Belfast)

August 2017Pb £24.999781474425872

• Describes the experiences spectators have when they watch a film collectively in a cinema

• Provides detailed phenomenological descriptions of how it feels when viewers laugh, cry and get angry in the cinema

• Investigates film theorists who have previously voiced ideas about the collective cinema experience such as Walter Benjamin, André Bazin, Edgar Morin, Roland Barthes and Roger Odin

November 2017Hb £75.009781474414951

The Audience EffectOn the Collective Cinema ExperienceJulian Hanich (University of Groningen)



• Contextualises Benning’s work in relation to the most important artistic and socio-historical influences on his filmmaking

• Analyses Benning as an eco-filmmaker with perspectives from environmental studies and eco-cinema

• Offers philosophical approaches to Benning’s films in view of their aesthetic, political and epistemological import

November 2017Hb £75.009781474417945


James Benning’s EnvironmentsPolitics, Ecology, Duration

Edited by Nikolaj Lübecker (University of Oxford) & Daniele Rugo (Brunel University London)

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Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality Traditions in World Cinema



FilM studiEs

• Like its twin volume, this book examines the politics of female authorship in relation to contemporary documentary practices

• Concentrates on theory and more philosophical questions of aesthetics, home and identity within the contexts of female subjectivity, globalisation and trauma

• Includes a dialogue on two key photographers, Hannah Wilke and Jo Spence, as well as an interview with Taiwanese documentary filmmakers Singing Chen and Wuna Wu

Female Authorship and the Documentary ImageTheory, Practice and AestheticsEdited by Boel Ulfsdotter & Anna Backman Rogers (both University of Gothenburg)

January 2018 Hb £75.009781474419444


• Like its twin volume, this book examines the politics of female authorship in relation to contemporary documentary practices

• Centres on how self-portraiture, blogging and the prevalent usage of social media shape and inform female subjectivities and claims to truth

• Includes interviews with Hong Kong based activist filmmaker and scholar Vivian Wenli Lin and Spanish documentarist Mercedes Alvarez

January 2018Hb £75.009781474419475

Female Agency and Documentary StrategiesSubjectivities, Identity and ActivismEdited by Boel Ulfsdotter & Anna Backman Rogers (both University of Gothenburg)


• A comprehensive analysis of totalitarian kitsch aesthetics and Spanish fascism

• An exploration of the links between cinema and politics in Franco and Post-Franco Spain

• In-depth film analysis of several Spanish films anchored in historical contexts

• Close analysis of films by critically acclaimed directors Luis Buñuel, Alex de la Iglesia and Guillermo del Toro

The Making and Unmaking of Francoist Kitsch CinemaFrom Raza to Pan’s LabyrinthAlejandro Yarza (Georgetown University)

December 2017Hb £75.009780748699247


• Provides new critical and theoretical approaches to a neglected aspect of Pedro Almodóvar’s cinema

• Explores the way in which Almodóvar’s 1990s and 2000s films, from The Flower of my Secret to The Skin I Live In, function as a means of witnessing the traumatic past

• Offers interpretative frameworks on trauma and memory in Contemporary Spanish Cinema

February 2018Pb £19.999781474431675


Aesthetics, Ethics and Trauma in the Cinema of Pedro AlmodóvarJulián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla (University of Southern California)

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• Considers a wide scope of international approaches to extreme cinema

• Draws together a diverse body of theoretical ideas to work towards a conceptualisation of the affective potential in cinema

• Engages critically with films that have received little scholarly attention

• Case studies include Wetlands, A Serbian Film and Helter Skelter

August 2017Pb £19.999781474426022

Extreme CinemaAffective Strategies in Transnational MediaAaron Kerner (San Francisco State University) & Jonathan Knapp (Harvard University)


192 pages

• Analyses the effects of complex narratives on viewers, including the psychological experience of puzzlement and perplexity

• Explores impossible puzzle films as a specific set of highly complex popular films

• Introduces cognitive dissonance as a key feature of these films

• Brings together literary theory, cognitive narratology and film studies

Impossible Puzzle FilmsA Cognitive Approach to Contemporary Complex CinemaMiklós Kiss & Steven Willemsen (both University of Groningen)

February 2018Pb £19.999781474431972




FilM studiEs

• Focuses on major aspects of colonial, late colonial and immediate post-colonial documentaries in South and South-East Asia

• Case studies of films and series include: the Berita Singapura film series; Merdeka for Malaya; Ho Chi Minh in France; Flores Film; Ria Rago; Archives of the Planet series

• Analyses missionary films, travelogues, newsreels, TV series and guerrilla documentaries

February 2018Pb £19.999781474431965

The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East AsiaEdited by Ian Aitken & Camille Deprez (both Hong Kong Baptist University)


• The first comprehensive collection on Hong Kong neo-noir cinema

• Examines the way Hong Kong has developed its own unique version of noir since the late 1940s

• Case studies include classics such as The Wild, Wild Rose (1960) and more recent films like Full Alert (1997) and Exiled (2007)

• Provides a fresh look at the careers of iconic figures Johnnie To, Jackie Chan and Fruit Chan

February 2018Pb £24.999781474431989


Hong Kong Neo-NoirEdited by Esther Yau (The University of Hong Kong) & Tony Williams (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale)


Edinburgh Studies in East Asian Film

• Covers the five most substantially preserved historical texts from Classical and Hellenistic Greece: Herodotos, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybios, and Diodoros

• Offers a comprehensive analysis of the moral-didactic techniques used and moral messages propounded by each of these authors

• Compares the practices and messages of the different works to arrive at a diachronic understanding of the role of moral didacticism in Classical and Hellenistic historiography.

Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus SiculusLisa Hau (University of Glasgow)

August 2017Pb £24.999781474427135

320 pages

• Brings together two supremely sophisticated ancient cultures that, despite their similarity, are almost always studied separately

• Indicates the kind of collaboration between specialists that is needed to move forward the stalled debate on the Axial Age

• Contributors include Paolo Magnone, Joanna Jurewicz, John Bussanich and Jens Schlieter

Universe and Inner Self in Early Indian and Early Greek ThoughtEdited by Richard Seaford (University of Exeter)

August 2017Pb £24.999781474427142

320 pages

• The first academic volume looking at various themes of the premium cable TV series Spartacus

• Includes original, innovative research in fields of history, politics, gender, film, fan culture

• Explores the theme of Spartacus on screen from multiple angles: history, classics, film studies, reception studies, gender studies, fandom studies

February 2018Pb £24.999781474432566

268 pages

STARZ SpartacusReimagining an Icon on ScreenEdited by Antony Augoustakis (University of Illinois) & Monica Cyrino (University of New Mexico)



• Presents and contextualises extracts from the Historical Library of Diodorus

• Provides the the first complete translation of Diodorus’ account of the history of Persia

• Evaluates Diodorus’ account and sources, taking into consideration the historical, political and archaeological factors that may have played a role in the transmission of the evidence

Semiramis’ LegacyThe History of Persia According to Diodorus of SicilyJan P. Stronk (University of Amsterdam)

February 2018Pb £29.999781474432559

624 pages


ClAssiCs

Screening Antiquity

Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia


sCottish studiEs

This pioneering book tells the story of urban development in Scotland over the course of a millennium, drawing on original research into more than thirty towns, from the smallest settlements to major cities. The changes in urban society came at different times and at different paces for most towns and many had to withstand crisis after crisis. The overall evolution of urban life, in its different guises, is explored throughout the book.

Beautifully illustrated and blending archaeological, cartographic and geographic resources, the study also examines the lives of people who lived in Scotland’s towns and cities to give the reader a vivid impression of the times and a clear understanding of how these urban developments came to be.

The Evolution of Scotland’s TownsCreation, Growth and FragmentationPatricia Dennison (Independent Historian)A wide-ranging history of Scotland’s towns from their earliest foundations to the turn of the 21st Century


November 2017 256 pages25 colour, 75 b+w illustrations

This comprehensive history of the Celts from origins to the present draws on archaeological, historical, literary and linguistic evidence. It is divided into three parts. Part one covers the continental Celts in prehistory and antiquity, complete with accounts of the Celts in Germany, Italy, Iberia and Asia Minor. The second part follows the Celts from the departure of the Romans to the late Middle Ages, including the migrations to and settlements in Ireland, Wales, Scotland and Brittany. The final part brings the history of the Celts up to the present, covering the assimilation of the Celts within the national cultures of Great Britain, France and Ireland.

The CeltsA History From Earliest Times to the PresentBernhard Maier (University of Tübingen), Translated by Kevin Windle (Australian National University) A comprehensive and scholarly overview of the history of the Celts and their cultural legacy

Pb 9781474427203 £19.99Formats available: paperback, ebook

December 2017 320 pages6 b+w illustrations, 6 maps

• This second edition features updated material throughout, drawing upon research from 2000-2016

• Includes archaeological, historical, literary and linguistic evidence

• Compares Celtic to Germanic cultures• Looks at Celtic cultural renewal• Examines the cultural legacy of the Celts in the

modern era

New History of ScotlandJanuary 2018 256 pages2 b+w illustrations

Court, Kirk and CommunityScotland 1470-1625Jenny Wormald (Formerly at University of Edinburgh)Explores how Scots lived in the dying days of an independent kingdomThis essential history focuses on society and religious life in Reformation Scotland from 1470 to 1625. It is a reprinted second edition in the popular New History of Scotland series, with a contextual introduction by Keith Brown as tribute to the career of Jenny Wormald, who did so much to transform our understanding of early modern Scotland.

This introductory text covers all the key events of the period including Scotland’s alliances with France, treaties with the English and the Union of the Crowns. At the heart of the book is a detailed examination of the spiritual origins and secular effects of the Reformation as it transformed root and branch the older medieval structure of Scotland.


2nd Edition

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sCottish studiEs

• A comparative study of Scotland’s global military diaspora, focusing on the impact of the Great War

• Develops a critical understanding of the complex connections between Scotland and its diasporic communities, addressing wider questions of ethnicity, identity and national belonging

• Provides case studies of how Scottish diaspora in different parts of the Commonwealth (England, North America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand) embraced or rejected Scottish military culture in forging their identities

August 2017 Pb £19.999781474429306

A Global ForceWar, Identities and Scotland’s DiasporaEdited by David Forsyth (National Museums Scotland) & Wendy Ugolini (University of Edinburgh)


• A social history of prostitution in Scotland that focuses on the realities of women’s lives

• Examines the formal and informal methods that were used to police female prostitution in Edinburgh and Glasgow between 1900 and 1939, and explores how these policies influenced women’s lives

• Focuses on the experiences of the women involved in prostitution, highlighting the poverty, exploitation and abuse they faced

Sex for Sale in ScotlandProstitution in Edinburgh and Glasgow, 1900-1939Louise Settle (University of Edinburgh)

August 2017Pb £19.999781474429313

• An innovative study of George Mackay Brown as a Scottish Catholic writer with a truly international reach

• Explores both the uniquely Scottish Catholic modernist movement of the twentieth century

• Gives sustained and illuminating close readings of key texts in Brown’s corpus

• Places Brown’s literary vision in a larger frame of reference beyond Scotland

July 2017Hb £70.009781474411653

George Mackay Brown and the Scottish Catholic ImaginationLinden Bicket (University of Edinburgh)


208 pages

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• A comparative study of the Scottish nationalist constitutional tradition

• Examines the historical trajectory of the constitutional question in Scotland and explores the influences and constraints on the constitutional imagination of the Scottish national movement

• Analyses the SNP’s two draft constitutions for an independent Scotland, one published in 2002 and the next in 2014

February 2018Pb £19.999781474432955

Constituting ScotlandThe Scottish National Movement and the West-minster ModelW. Elliot Bulmer (International Institute for Democracy, The Hague)

280 pages


• Explores the lived experiences of civilian men on Clydeside during the Second World War

• Uses material from new oral history interviews undertaken with men and women who worked in reserved occupations in Clydeside

• Challenges assumptions about gender identities in wartime

• Explores the Second World War as a catalyst for social change in a fundamentally new way

Masculinities on ClydesideMen in Reserved Occupations During the Second World WarAlison Chand (University of Strathclyde)

February 2018Pb £19.999781474432962

216 pages


• Examines the impact since 1600 of out-migration from Scotland upon the homeland, on the migrants themselves, on the destinations in which they settled, and upon their descendants and ‘affinity’ Scots

• Themes include: slavery, cross-cultural encounters, economics, war, tourism and the modern diaspora since 1945

• Spans diverse destinations including Europe, the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Ceylon, Hong Kong and Guyana

Global MigrationsThe Scottish Diaspora since 1600Edited by Angela McCarthy (University of Otago) & John M. MacKenzie (Lancaster University)

July 2017Pb £19.999781474429320



Scottish Religious Cultures


sCottish studiEs

• The first book-length study of the transformative reign of the Catholic King James VII and the revolution that brought his fall

• Analyses James VII’s reign in the context of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century political and religious change

• Provides a clear narrative of the period, as well as thematic analysis of political and religious developments

January 2018Hb £75.009781474427579

224 pages

Scotland in Revolution, 1685–1690Alasdair Raffe (University of Edinburgh)

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• Explores the transformation of popular politics in urban Scotland between 1918 and 1939

• Suggests new avenues in the history of twentieth-century Scottish politics, especially the role of rhetoric, space and place

• Draws upon local newspapers, political literature, posters, and contemporary accounts of marches, rallies and demonstrations

Popular Politics and Political CultureUrban Scotland, 1918-1939Malcolm Petrie (University of St Andrews)

January 2018Hb £75.009781474425612


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• This collection charts the lives and times of Muslims living in contemporary Scotland

• Themes include health, education, gender, sexuality, politics, integration, family and the media

• Explores the political participation of Muslims and their engagements with multicultural nationalism

• Charts the changing size, composition and practices of Muslims in Scotland

Scotland’s MuslimsSociety, Politics and IdentityEdited by Peter Hopkins (Newcastle University)

September 2017 Hb £80.009781474427234


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Editor in Chief, Warwick BallManaging Editor, Shivan Mahendrarajah

Journals from Edinburgh University Press


PolitiCs

• The first exploration of the British–Middle Eastern intelligence liaison

• Examines the counter-subversive policies and measures conducted by the British Secret Intelligence Service, MI5 and IRD

• Looks at Britain’s involvement in Middle Eastern countries such as Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Iran

• Examines newly declassified archives obtained by the author’s FOI requests

The Twilight of the British EmpireBritish Intelligence and Counter-Subversion in the Middle East, 1948–63Chikara Hashimoto (University of Sharjah, UAE)

October 2017 Hb £75.00 9781474410458

256 pages

The Government and Politics of WalesRussell Deacon (University of Wales Trinity St David), Alison Denton (educational advisor and WJEC) & Robert Southall (Crosskeys Campus of Coleg Gwen and WJEC)A much-needed textbook on the politics and government of Wales in the devolution eraThis is the first textbook to focus solely on the devolved Welsh Government. Helpful study features include explanatory boxes and tables, key word glossaries and a list of sample essay and exam questions at the end of each chapter. It will also be a useful resource for those who need greater knowledge in order to interact with the Welsh government, from either side of the border.



• Specially written by teachers and lecturers for students of Welsh government and politics on AS, A2 and undergraduate courses

• Provides 10 case studies through providing examples of the nature and analysis of Welsh politics

• Divided into short, easy-to read sub-sections, with worked examples and analysis tailored to students

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Intelligence, Surveillance and Secret Warfare

Reframing 1968American Politics, Protest and IdentityMartin Halliwell (University of Leicester) & Nick Witham (Canterbury Christ Church University)14 interdisciplinary essays investigate the legacy of 1968 in modern protest movements



The assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy. Gay rights, women’s rights and civil rights. The Black Panthers and the Vietnam War. The New Left and the New Right. 1968 was a tumultuous year for US politics.

50 years on, Reframing 1968 explores the historical, political and social legacy of 1968 in modern protest movements. The contributors look at how protest has changed in the US, from Students for a Democratic Society and the Civil Rights Movement in the late 1960s, to the Women’s Movement in the 1970s, through to the contemporary visibility of the Tea Party and the Occupy movement.

• Explores how, during his time at the Treasury, Brown was able to exercise more power than any of his predecessors in the setting of economic policy both at home and abroad

• Reveals how Brown exported his own carefully cultivated model of British political economy to the world as an attempt to increase overseas aid, solve debt and address HIV/AIDS in the global South

• Draws on a vast array of Brown’s speeches and policies, both before and after his time in government

Global StatesmanHow Gordon Brown Took New Labour to the WorldDavid M. Webber (University of Warwick)

October 2017 Hb £75.00 9781474423564

• Addresses the challenges that increased and diversified patterns of international migration and mobility pose to theories and practices of multicultural citizenship

• Covers European, North American and Australian cases and dynamics, going beyond common regional limitations of discussions on international migration or multiculturalism

• Written for a cross-disciplinary readership including law, political science, sociology and political theory

October 2017 Hb £85.00 9781474428231

Multicultural Governance in a Mobile WorldEdited by Anna Triandafyllidou (European University Institute, Florence)

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• Asks how we can empower people living in the most economically disadvantaged communities to improve their lives in ways that matter to them

• Refutes top-down development theory and shows how bottom-up human rights-based development can work in real life

• Uses Tostan’s community-led model as an example of helpful development intervention, drawing on the author’s experience of living in the community, giving qualitative evidence of its effectiveness

Human Rights and Community-led DevelopmentLessons from TostanBen Cislaghi (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

Studies in Global Justice and Human Rightss

December 2017 Hb £75.00 9781474419796

288 pages

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PolitiCs

• Critically rejects the idea that slaves are somehow ‘beyond politics’

• Analyses the dominant liberal discourse on slavery, from Aristotle to Nietzsche

• Examines the connections between ‘old’ and ‘new’ slavery

• Explores the role of concepts of power, violence, domination and subordination, issues of economic exploitation and the organisation of labour and the influence of race and gender

The Politics of SlaveryLaura Brace (University of Leicester)

January 2018 Hb £75.00 9781474401142

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208 pages

• Critically analyses the current state of democracy in examples from throughout the world

• Places our political condition in its historical context, reconsiders key issues of political thought and compares current democracies across different world regions

• Case studies include: Latin America, Argentina, South Africa and Brazil

• Discusses topics including contemporary political transformation and its relation to democracy, capitalism and democracy and women’s history

The Trouble with DemocracyPolitical Modernity in the 21st CenturyEdited by Gerard Rosich & Peter Wagner (both University of Barcelona)

August 2017Pb £24.999781474428392

304 pages


• Explains how an understanding of military occupation as a distinct phenomenon first emerged

• Explores the problems encountered by the occupiers, occupied, commentators and courts

• Covers all major occupations including: France, Sicily, Greece, Belgium, Syria, Mexico, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cyprus, Egypt, Korea, Peking, the Boer Republics and Latin America

• Also covers occupations related to the Napoleonic Wars, the Mexican-American War, the American Civil War, the Franco-Prussian War, the Russo-Turkish War and the Spanish-American War

August 2017 Pb £24.999781474428415

A History of Military Occupation from 1792 to 1914Peter M. R. Stirk (Durham University)

360 pages


• Explores the interplay of forces that shape ‘peace formation’ in modern conflict-affected states

• Comparative case studies, based on wide-ranging fieldwork, look at Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Cyprus, East Timor (Timor-Leste), Israel-Palestine, Kosovo, Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone and the Solomon Islands

• Takes an innovative theoretical approach, engaging with local and contextual forms of peacebuilding agency and including local authors

Post-Liberal Peace TransitionsBetween Peace Formation and State FormationOliver P. Richmond & Sandra Pogodda (both University of Manchester)

August 2017Pb £19.999781474428408

256 pages


December 2017 Hb £75.00 9781474420549

208 pages

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Sinn Féin and the IRAFrom Revolution to ModerationMathew Whiting (University of Reading)

• An original interpretation of Irish republicanism’s strategic process of moderation and of British policy towards the management of the conflict in Northern Ireland

• Asks what exactly has changed within Irish republicanism, what remains the same and, crucially, what caused these changes

• Draws on a wealth of archival material and interview transcripts to argue that long-term moderation was in fact the product of increased political inclusion and contact with stable democratic institutions


PolitiCs

• Critically examines the competing discourses surrounding human trafficking, the conceptual basis of global responses and the impact of these horrific acts worldwide

• Locates human trafficking within a theoretical and legislative framework of global, political and economic development

• Highlights the challenges of research and evaluation in this contentious and hidden economy

Human TraffickingThe Complexities of ExploitationEdited by Margaret Malloch (Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research at the University of Stirling) & Paul Rigby (University of Stirling)

• Reassesses Kropotkin’s political thought in a number of key historical contexts to reveal its enduring significance

• Suggests that the ‘classical’ interpretation has distorted Kropkin’s ideas

• Corrects some popular myths about Kropotkin’s thought, explains his unique contribution to the history of socialist ideas and sheds new light on the nature of anarchist ideology

August 2017Pb £19.999781474428378

KropotkinReviewing the Classical Anarchist TraditionRuth Kinna (Loughborough University)

August 2017Pb £19.999781474428385

192 pages

272 pages

• Explores one of the prominent themes of the political history of the 16th and 17th centuries: the waxing influence officials in the exercise of state power, particularly in international relations, as monarchs could no longer stay on top of the increasingly complex demands of ruling

• Examines how state secretaries, prime ministers and favourites managed diplomatic personnel and the information flows they generated

• Encompasses a variety of cultural and institutional settings

Secretaries and Statecraft in the Early Modern WorldEdited by Paul M. Dover (Kennesaw State University)

August 2017 Pb £24.999781474428446

320 pages




• Develops the central features and principles of an ‘individualistic perfectionism’ in ethics

• Challenges the assumption of contemporary political philosophers, especially Martha Nussbaum, John Rawls and Amartya Sen, that politics can separate itself from other philosophical positions and frameworks

• Shows that this new iteration of perfectionism is a major and powerful alternative to much contemporary ethical thinking – particularly to constructivism – that overcomes the standard objections to perfectionism

August 2017Pb £24.999781474428439

The Perfectionist TurnFrom Metanorms to MetaethicsDouglas Den Uyl (Liberty Fund, Inc.) & Douglas Rasmussen (St John’s University)

348 pages1 b+w illustration


• 8 essays ask whether global standards of aid, assistance and redistribution achievable in practice

• Focuses on a normative study of the global institutional order with suggestions of direct ways to reform it

• Addresses humanitarian and development aid, the slave trade, health care assistance, reparations for historical injustices, the United Nations’ Central Emergency Response Fund and the global responsibility of the European Union

International Development and Human AidPrinciples, Norms and Institutions for the Global Sphere Edited by Paulo Barcelos & Gabriele De Angelis (both Universidade NOVA de Lisboa)

Studies in Global Justice and Human Rights

February 2018 Pb £19.99 9781474432597

224 pages


• Explores Russia’s new ethno-nationalism in its various guises, including racism, xenophobia and a new intellectual movement of ‘national democracy’ that emulates conservative Western European nationalism

• Includes case studies on nationalism and migrantophobia, religion, the media, national identity in economic policy, the strategy of the Putin regime and a survey-based study of nationalism in public opinion

• Includes analysis of Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014

August 2017Pb £29.999781474428422

436 pages

The New Russian NationalismImperialism, Ethnicity and Authoritarianism 2000–2015Edited by Pål Kolstø (University of Oslo) & Helge Blakkisrud (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)



PolitiCs

• Investigates the character of intelligence knowledge and the social context in which it is produced

• Uses the Swedish Military and Security Directorate (MUST) as a case study

• Sources include:The annual Swedish Armed Forces Strategic Intelligence Estimates from 1998–2010; in-depth interviews with analysts, including managers, working at MUST; participant observation at MUST working meetings and seminars during the production of the 2010 estimate

Swedish Military IntelligenceProducing KnowledgeGunilla Erikkson (Swedish National Defence College)

February 2018Pb £19.999781474432580

240 pages

• The first book-length systematic clarification and defence of Sufficientarianism, which insists that securing enough of some things, such as food, healthcare and education, is a crucial demand of justice

• Critically discusses the relative merits of sufficiency compared to equality or priority

• Engages in practical debates about critical issues such as child-rearing and global justice

February 2018Pb £19.999781474432603

Just EnoughSufficiency as a Demand of JusticeLiam Shields (University of Manchester)

224 pages


• Draws on a wealth of declassified documents • Reveals that relations between Britain and

the United States of America during Carter’s presidency – even the most ‘special’ aspects of intelligence and nuclear cooperation – were riven with antagonism and disagreement

• Provides an original understanding to how both countries approached the breakdown of the superpower détente, human rights and their common economic and energy challenges

February 2018Pb £19.99 9781474432610


256 pages

Jimmy Carter and the Anglo-American ‘Special Relationship’Thomas K. Robb (Oxford Brookes University)

Edinburgh Studies in Anglo-American Relations


• Reflects on revolutions and transformations in the global arena, prompted by the 25th anniversary of the Soviet collapse

• Explores the impact of the collapse of the Soviet Bloc, the political transformations after 9/11, the important changes following the global economic crisis, the repercussions of the Arab Spring and the rise of India and China

February 2018 Pb £19.99 9781474432573

Social Transformations and RevolutionsReflections and AnalysesEdited by Johann P. Arnason (La Trobe University, Melbourne) & Marek Hrubec (Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague)

212 pages

Annual of European and Global Studies

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The history and contemporary situation of Muslim communities in Eastern Europe are explored here from three angles. First, survival, telling of the resilience of these Muslim communities in the face of often restrictive state policies and hostile social environments, especially during the Communist period. Next, their subsequent revival in the aftermath of the Cold War, and last, transformation, looking at the profound changes currently taking place in the demographic composition of the communities and in the forms of Islam practiced by them.

Muslims in Eastern EuropeEgdunas Racius (Vytautas Magnus University)Introduces the centuries-old history of Muslim communities in Eastern Europe


The New Edinburgh Islamic SurveysJanuary 2018 256 pages

Essential Skills in ArabicFrom Intermediate to AdvancedEl Mustapha Lahlali and Radia Kesseiri (both University of Leeds)A guide for intermediate-level Arabic students to improve their reading, listening and communication skills

The Qur’an represents both Islam’s historical point of origin and its scriptural foundation, inaugurating a new religion and, ultimately, a new civilisation. Yet the text itself can be difficult to understand, and the scholarship devoted to it is often highly technical. This comprehensive introduction to the basic methods and current state of historical-critical Qur’anic scholarship covers all of the field’s major questions, such as: Where and when did the Qur’an emerge? How do Qur’anic surahs function as literary compositions? How do the Qur’an’s main themes and ideas relate to and transform earlier Jewish and Christian traditions?

The Qur’anA Historical-Critical IntroductionNicolai Sinai (University Of Oxford)An accessible and up-to-date introduction to the study of the Qur’an in its historical context


The New Edinburgh Islamic SurveysSeptember 2017 256 pages14 b+w tables

Offering practical sessions and exercises, each module contains a wide range of authentic, contemporary texts so that students can practice their skills as they develop. Moving readers from the intermediate to the advanced level of Arabic, they will work though sessions on culture and society, the environment, literature, science and technology, media and communication, education, the economy, the Middle East, and sports.


February 2018 224 pages

• Provides an overview of the history and current trends in Muslim communities in 21 post-Communist Eastern European countries

• Analyses the situation of Muslim communities in Eastern Europe on a country-cluster basis (North-Eastern Europe, the successor states of Yugoslavia, South-Eastern Europe and Central Europe)

islAMiC & MiddlE EAstErn studiEs

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• Engages with alternative arguments and perspectives, empowering readers to find their own way through the complex field of Qur’anic Studies

• Synthesises an intertextual and literary approach to the Qur’an

• Provides specific and accessible examples, including a literary analysis of two Qur’anic surahs and an intertextual case study of the Qur’anic Adam narratives

• Includes figures and tables highlighting key facts

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• A wide variety of drills to help readers refine their reading and listening skills

• A key to exercises so learners can check their progress• A glossary of key Arabic terms• Access to online audio material to accompany the

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Political Change in the Middle East and North AfricaAfter the Arab SpringEdited by Inmaculada Szmolka (University of Granada)Analyses the democratic dimension of the recent political changes in MENA


August 2017 456 pages10 b+w illustrations, 29 b+w tables

Taking Maibud as a case study, Eisa Esfanjary traces the evolution of ancient settlements chronologically, thematically and methodologically. An archetypal example of middle-sized Persian cities, Maibud, affords insights into the entire urban landscape and its spatial, functional and morphological iterations. Within this overall picture, a methodology is developed to explore various morphological elements of the city, the three key components of which are the town plan, the building type, and construction materials.

Persian Historic Urban LandscapesInterpreting and Managing Maibud over 6000 YearsEisa Esfanjary (Art University of Isfahan)The first urban study of the Iranian city of Maibud over its 6000-year history


October 2017 288 pages20 b+w illustrations, 50 colour illustrations, 70 maps, plans, line drawings and photos

Persian ArtImage-making in EurasiaEdited by Yuka Kadoi (University of Edinburgh)Explores the pictorial, material and technological richness of the Persian world


November 2017 288 pages16 colour and 34 b+w illustrations

Covering the multifaceted aspects of art, architecture and material culture of the Persian cultural realm, this book encompasses West Asia, Anatolia, Central Asia and South Asia. Each chapter examines the historical, religious or scientific role of visual culture in the shaping, influencing and transforming of distinctive Persian aesthetics across the various historical periods, ranging from pre-Islamic, through the medieval and early modern Islamic period, to modern times.

• Provides an insightful picture of the expansion of Persian visual culture across wide swathes of Asia, from the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean

• Considers various media including manuscript painting, portable objects, architectural traditions, building technology, science, calligraphy and carpets, from about the third century AD to modern times

Taking a comparative approach, this book considers the ways in which political regimes have changed since the Arab Spring. It addresses a series of questions about political change in the context of the revolutions, upheavals and protests that have taken place in North Africa and the Arab Middle East since December 2010, and looks at the various processes have been underway in the region: democratisation (Tunisia), failed democratic transitions (Egypt, Libya and Yemen), political liberalisation (Morocco) and increased authoritarianism (Bahrain, Kuwait, Syria).

• Develops an overview of the consequences of the Arab Spring for the political regimes in the region and for the wider world

• Takes a thematic approach, with chapters on parties and political groups, elections, constitutional frameworks, governance, civil society, rights and freedoms, regional powers, security issues, foreign policy, and media and media freedom

• Looks at EU and US foreign policy in the MENA region



• Shows how medieval Western European and North African history were part of a common Western Mediterranean culture

• Provides a political, cultural and social history of the region

• Primarily based on personal biographies of remarkable Mediterranean travellers, scholars, rulers and historians

• Examines key elements of this history: commerce, slavery, mercenary activity, art and intellectual and religious debates

• Examines the development of Muslim theological, legal, literary and cultural discussions about violence and its legitimation

• Takes a broad understanding of violence – from warfare between Muslims (and between Muslims and others) to individual acts of violence

• Positions these classical conceptions of violence and its justification in Islamic thought in the broader methodological debate over violence and its relationship with religious thought

Violence in Islamic Thought from the Mongols to European ImperialismEdited by Robert Gleave & István Kristó-Nagy (both University of Exeter)

August 2017Pb £24.999781474426404

January 2018Hb £75.009781474413008

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• Explores the political, social and cultural dimensions of the press in the Middle East in the pre-independence era

• Twelve innovative case studies based on archival research cover Palestine, Egypt, Tunisia, Ottoman, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Morocco

• Profiles political activists and amateurs through to the emergence of the professional journalist in the Middle East

December 2017Hb £80.009781474430616

• The first documented insight into the content and structure of a large-scale medieval Arabic library

• Includes an annotated translation of the Ashrafiya catalogue and full-colour facsimile reproduction of the catalogue’s unique manuscript

• Seeing which books were held in the library give insights into text circulation and medieval ‘bestsellers’

• A new interpretation of Arab origins and the historical roots of Arab identity

• Reveals that the time-honoured stereotypes depicting Arabs as ancient Arabian Bedouin are entirely misleading: the essence of Arab identity was in fact devised by Muslims during the first centuries of Islam

• Explores how Muslims used the idea of ‘the Arab’ to articulate their communal identity and to explain the rise of Islam

Imagining the ArabsArab Identity and the Rise of IslamPeter Webb (Leiden University)

August 2017Pb £29.999781474426435

416 pages

• Shows how the interactive, confrontational practice of courtly arts shaped imperial thought in the Middle Ages

• Covers Classical Arabic poetry and official prose, Spanish court documents, Galician Portuguese lyric and Italian narrative works from 950-1350

• Provides new critical context for historians’ work to reconcile the political violence of the late Middle Ages with the cosmopolitanism of that era’s Islamic and Christian empires

Medieval Empires and the Culture of CompetitionLiterary Duels at Islamic and Christian CourtsSamuel England (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

October 2017Hb £75.009781474425223

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The Near WestMedieval North Africa, Latin Europe and the Mediterranean in the Second Axial AgeAllen Fromherz (Georgia State University)

The Press in the Middle East and North Africa, 1850-1950Politics, Social History and CultureEdited by Anthony Gorman (University of Edinburgh) & Didier Monciaud (University Paris VII Denis Diderot)

Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic LibraryThe Ashrafiya Library CatalogueKonrad Hirschler (Freie Universität Berlin)

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Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Islamic Thought

304 pages3 b+w illustrations 2 Maps


August 2017 Pb £29.999781474426398



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Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture



• The story of how one tribal family claimed the legacy of Chinggis Qan in Persia

• Shows how the Jalayirid sultans sought to preserve the social and political order of the Ilkhanate while claiming they were the rightful heirs to its rulership

• Considers the importance of controlling Azarbayjan for the success of the Jalayirid dynasty

• Includes maps and a genealogy of the Jalayirid Dynasty

August 2017 Pb £19.999781474426374

The JalayiridsDynastic State Formation in the Mongol Middle EastPatrick Wing (University of Redlands)

240 pages7 b+w illustrations 9 b+w tables

• Explores the colonial, social and political history of the creation of citizenship in mandate Palestine

• Examines the reactions of the Arab population to their new status

• Approaches the ‘invention’ of citizenship in Palestine through a number of frameworks: the wider British imperial project, the development of Arab populist politics and civil society, and the circulation of ideas to and from the Palestinian Arab diaspora

The Invention of Palestinian Citizenship, 1918-1947Lauren Banko (University of Manchester)

February 2018Pb £24.999781474432146

288 pages

• Tells the stories of 37 new Arabic drugs within the context of their natural history

• Reconstructs and presents a list of medicinal substances distributed by the Arabs as a result of their conquests

• Describes the contribution of the Arabs to the daily medieval cultural material (medicine, cosmetics, perfumery, dyeing of materials, industrial products and precious stones)

Arabian Drugs in Early Medieval Mediterranean MedicineZohar Amar (Bar-ilan University) & Efraim Lev (University of Haifa)

February 2018Pb £24.999781474432122

• A study of Islamic law and political power in the Ottoman Empire’s richest provincial city

• Presents law as the key nexus connecting Egypt with the imperial capital Istanbul during the period of Ottoman decentralisation

• Studies judicial institutions such as the governor’s Diwan and the imperial council that have received little attention in previous scholarship

February 2018Pb £19.999781474432139

Islamic Law and Empire in Ottoman CairoJames Baldwin (Royal Holloway, University of London)


• Brings clarity to modern trends, events and debates in the Islamic world by placing them in their historical context

• Includes contributions from expert scholars in the medieval and modern Islamic world

• Calls for a new approach to modern Islamic and Middle Eastern studies requiring a deeper understanding of the role and function of the classical Islamic heritage

Reclaiming Islamic TraditionModern Interpretations of the Classical HeritageEdited by Elisabeth Kendall (University of Oxford) & Ahmad Khan (Universität Hamburg)

February 2018Pb £24.999781474432160


• Explores the role of apocalyptic symbolism in the creation and development of the Fatimid Empire

• Introduces selected themes, texts and theoretical problems in early Fatimid history and thought to those unfamiliar with Islam or the Shia tradition

• Looks at how various components of the apocalyptic myth – especially the utopia that it promised – evolved in response to shifting historical circumstances

February 2018Pb £19.999781474432207

184 pages

An Apocalyptic History of the Early Fatimid EmpireJamel Velji (Claremont McKenna College)



Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture

Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Apocalypticism and Eschatology



• The first comprehensive analysis of Muslim movements of reform in modern sub-Saharan Africa

• Based on twelve case studies: Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar and the Comoros

• Focuses on the dynamics of social and religious development, the political dynamics of Islamic ‘reform’ and issues of youth, generational change and gender

February 2018Pb £29.999781474432191

Islamic Reform in Twentieth-Century AfricaRoman Loimeier (University of Göttingen)

560 pages

• Organised around 3 key sections: places (covering trade, blogging, sacred spaces); people (covering intellectuals, women); and politics (covering states)

• Unique in focusing on Muslim cosmopolitanisms in Southeast Asia

• Shows how local, regional and global factors interact to give rise to cosmopolitan forms of thinking

• Provides a counterpoint to a perception of Islam as a divisive force in society

Muslim CosmopolitanismSoutheast Asian Islam in Comparative PerspectiveKhairudin Aljunied (National University of Singapore)

October 2017Pb £24.999781474420464

• Provides a new reading of the Qur’an’s ethical world view

• Proposes an original methodology for understanding Qur’anic ethics in the light of Islamic theology

• Highlights passages of the Qur’an that reveal new depth when connected to the broader thematic structure of Qur’anic justice

• Broaches a conversation between Qur’anic ethics and wider theological and philosophical discourse

The Qur’an and the Just SocietyRamon Harvey (Ebrahim College)

November 2017Hb £80.009781474403290

• A transregional history of Muslim community in the British Empire

• Explores the social consequences of Britain’s creation of an Indian Ocean empire that brought millions of Muslim subjects under a single political umbrella

• Shows how individuals drawn together from enormously diverse geographic, cultural and social backgrounds manage the realities of everyday life together via a common Islamic discursive tradition

November 2017Hb £70.009780748697656

Imperial MuslimsIslam, Community and Authority in the Indian Ocean, 1839-1937Scott Reese (Northern Arizona University)



• A captivating narrative of four hundred years of Islamic intellectual history in China

• Tells the stories of Chinese Muslims trying to create coherent lives at the intersection of two potentially conflicting cultures

• Examines the continuing translations and adaptations of Islam and Muslims in Chinese culture and society through the writings of Sino-Muslim intellectuals

Islamic Thought in ChinaSino-Muslim Intellectual Evolution from the 17th to the 21st CenturyEdited by Jonathan Lipman (Mount Holyoke College)

August 2017Pb £24.999781474426459

288 pages

• Traces the effects of anticolonial and anti-imperialist movements on Arab autobiographical production in Arabic, English and French in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries

• Provides a new assessment of autobiographical works in Arab literature and a contribution to discussions of postcolonialism and world literature

September 2017Hb £75.009781474420228

224 pages

Literary Autobiography and Arab National StrugglesTahia Abdel Nasser (American University in Cairo)



Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature

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• An introduction to the novels of the contemporary Egyptian author Sonallah Ibrahim

• Places the works of Sonallah Ibrahim in their social, historical and political setting

• Each chapter focuses on a single novel, beginning with Tilka alRa’iha (1966) and ending with al-‘Imāma wa’l-Qubba’a (2008)

August 2017Pb £19.999781474426442

Sonallah IbrahimRebel with a PenPaul Starkey (University of Durham)

248 pages

• Re-introduces a poorly understood, provocative and unusual work to a new audience

• Uses a new method of reading medieval Arabic literature in dialogue with Classical literature, especially from Ancient Greece and Rome

• Includes an abridged translation of the Hikayat, giving the reader a taste of its both amusing and shocking content

Hikāyat Abī al-QāsimA Literary BanquetEmily Selove (University of Exeter)

August 2017Pb £19.999781474426381

216 pages

• Examines representations of Gamal Abdel Nasser in Egyptian novels, short stories, autobiographies and films

• Contributes to the ongoing debate on Nasser and his relevance to modern Egyptians

• Shows how Nasser functions for many Egyptians as a site of memory at times disconnected from the real historical figure he once was

Nasser in the Egyptian ImaginaryOmar Khalifah (Georgetown School of Foreign Service in Doha)

February 2018Pb £19.999781474432184

• The first study to analyse the recognition scene in the Arabic narrative tradition

• Offers new vistas for reading, understanding and interpreting Arabic literature as well as the culture in which it was produced

• Provides a comparative perspective, appealing to students of narrative literature across linguistic, regional and cultural traditions

February 2018Pb £24.999781474432177

Recognition in the Arabic Narrative TraditionDiscovery, Deliverance and DelusionPhilip F. Kennedy (New York University)

256 pages

368 pages

Volume I: The Nasihat al-mulūk of Pseudo-Māwardī: Contexts and Themes• The first volume situates Counsel for Kings in its

historical context

Volume II: The Nasihat al-mulūk of Pseudo-Māwardī: Texts, Sources and Authorities• The second volume gives direct access to a

substantial portion of the text through translation and commentary

Volume I: August 2017Pb £24.99 9781474426411360 pages

Volume II:August 2017Pb £29.99 9781474426428392 pages

Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century IranL. Marlow (Wellesley College)


• Explores the dynamic relationships between language, politics and society in the Middle East

• Includes chapters on identity changes via literary creations and word choice, code-switching and its importance in understanding political realities; Arabic studies in Jewish schools in Israel; the influence of the dominant Hebrew on Arabic spoken by Palestinians in Israel, and ‘the language of the revolution’ with case studies from Tunisia, Egypt and Libya

Language, Politics and Society in the Middle EastEssays in Honour of Yasir SuleimanEdited by Yonatan Mendel (University of Cambridge) & Abeer AlNajjar (LSE)

January 2018Hb £80.009781474421539

320 pages

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Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature

Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature







This study guide covers all the essential facets of Scottish criminal law, making it an excellent resource for students revising for their exams and professionals in need of a quick refresh. Summary sections of Essential Facts and Essential Cases will help readers to identify, understand and remember the key elements of the subject.

Scottish Criminal Law EssentialsClaire McDiarmid (University of Strathclyde)


Edinburgh Law Essentials January 2018 224 pages

Fully updated for the fifth edition, The Scottish Parliament explains the current powers of the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish Government. It explains how the parliament works and how its legislation and actions can be challenged.

• Analyses how the Scottish Parliament’s legislation can be challenged, and sets out the major cases since 1999

• Explains the historical background to Scottish devolution• Takes a detailed look at how relations between Scotland

and the rest of the UK have developed under devolution• Anticipates how law and government might change in

future, particularly after Brexit

The Scottish ParliamentLaw and Practice, 5th EditionMark Lazarowicz (Scottish Bar) & Jean McFadden (University of Strathclyde)



New for this edition• Takes account of the Criminal Justice (Scotland)

Act 2016, with changes to the law in Defences, Homicide, Crimes Against Public Order, and Sexual Offences, amongst others.

• Updated case and statute law throughout

New for this edition• Extensive new material takes account of recent

constitutional, legal and political developments• All chapters have been substantially rewritten• Incorporates the extention of devolution, new

case law, the new financial powers of the Scottish Parliament and the Scotland Acts of 2012 and 2016

• Considers the 2014 independence referendum and the 2016 EU referendum

• New sections look at how the Scottish parliament and devolved government work in practice

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• Debates Cicero’s role in the narrative of Roman law in the late Republic – a role that has been minimised or overlooked in previous scholarship

• Opens a larger debate about the nature of law and the legal profession in the late Roman Republic

• Contributors: Benedikt Forschner • Catherine Steel • Christine Lehne-Gstreinthaler • Jan Willem Tellegen • Jennifer Hilder • Jill Harries • Matthijs Wibier • Michael C. Alexander • Olga Tellegen-Couperus • Philip Thomas • Saskia T. Roselaar • Yasmina Benferhat

Cicero’s LawRethinking Roman Law of the Late RepublicEdited by Paul J. du Plessis (University of Edinburgh)

February 2018Pb £19.999781474432535

256 pages


• Asks what unites the seemingly diverse applications of Levinas: as a theorist of judicial activism, a champion of radical human rights, an illuminator of the inner soul of private law and a proponent of natural law theory

• Explores law’s relationship with ‘the Other’• Comes to a sceptical conclusion on the capacity

of Levinsian ethics to be invested in legal institutions

• Proposes that Levinas’ ethics should be embodied in the perpetual critique of law

Levinas, Ethics and LawMatthew Stone (University of Essex)

February 2018Pb £19.999781474432542

184 pages


• Gathers leading experts in the field to analyse the recent, sweeping changes to Scottish criminal evidence law: any discernible patterns and what they mean for the future of Scottish criminal evidence law

• Covers police questioning of suspects; the treatment of vulnerable witnesses in court; double jeopardy; the admissibility of the accused’s previous convictions; the Crown’s duty of disclosure; and the need for corroboration

November 2017Hb £75.009781474414760

240 pages

Scottish Criminal Evidence LawCurrent Developments and Future TrendsEdited by Peter Duff (University of Aberdeen) & Pamela Ferguson (University of Dundee)

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Analyzing Syntax through TextsOld, Middle, and Early Modern EnglishElly van Gelderen (Arizona State University)

This textbook invites the student to explore early English syntax by looking at the linguistic characteristics of well- known texts throughout the early history of English. It shows how that piece of the language fits in to the broader picture of how English is developing and introduces the student to the real writing of the period as you look at the original manuscript version of selected excerpts. For each text, issues such as the word order, the presence of auxiliaries, articles, and pronouns, the types of pronouns, and the nature of complex sentences are explored.


Edinburgh Historical Linguistics81 colour illustrationsDecember 2017 256 pages

This workbook is divided into five broad topics. Each section begins with an introduction to the principles of historical linguistics as applied to the topic in hand. This introduction is followed by the problems themselves, ordered by level of difficulty (beginning, intermediate, advanced). Answers, together with discussion, are provided in the ‘Solutions’ section at the end of the book. The workbook is intended to be a companion piece to any textbook on historical linguistics, providing data-based instruction on the basic principles of the field and illustrating theory ‘in a practical way.

101 Problems and Solutions in Historical LinguisticsA WorkbookRobert Blust (University of Hawai’i at Mānoa)

Pb 9781474429214 £19.99 Hb 9781474429207 £90.00Formats available: paperback, hardback, ebook


• Word by word transcriptions and translations • A glossary, exercises and suggestions for further

reading• Appendices containing a summary of all

grammatical information, background on texts and keys to the exercises

• Uses the original manuscript version of selected excerpts to get closer to the language

• Designed for upper-level undergraduates with some experience of historical linguistics.

• A clear structure for each section combes an overview with progressively difficult problems

• Covers a wide range of problem types in historical linguistics at varying levels of difficulty

• Provides explicit solutions to all problems without the need to resort to a separate answer book

• Topics covered: the establishment of genetic relationship among languages; sound change; phonological reconstruction; internal reconstruction; subgrouping

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What exactly are words? Are they the things that get listed in dictionaries, or are they the basic units of sentence structure? In the revised and updated edition of this bestselling textbook Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy explores the implications of these different approaches to words in English.

Topics include: words, sentences and dictionaries; a word and its parts (roots and affixes); a word and its forms (inflection); a word and its relatives (derivation); compound words; word structure; productivity; and the historical sources of English word formation.

An Introduction to English Morphology2nd editionAndrew Carstairs-McCarthy (University of Canterbury, Christchurch)

Pb 9781474428972 £19.99 Hb 9781474428965 £90.00Formats available: paperback, hardback, ebook

Edinburgh Textbooks on the English LanguageFebruary 2018 160 pages

The second edition features:• Updated exercises throughout, with answers and

discussion• Fully updated recommendations further reading • A completely new introduction and glossary, and a

complete refresh of examples and references

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2nd Edition


lAnguAgE & linguistiCs

• Presents a new approach to issues of language and dialect contact

• Analyses a variety of different language contact scenarios

• Brings together the diverse theoretical positions associated with the production of new dialects

• Evaluates different scholarly views through analysis of a range of different case-studies, largely derived from the history and diversity of English

• Highlights the role of writers, and of fiction, in the language debates of post-Soviet Russia

• Looks at the subject from the point of view of literary language featuring Tolstaia, Vodolazkin, Popov, Sorokin, Votrin, Gigolashvili and others

• Part 4 offers a comparative reading of two writers and their approaches to the linguistic issue(s) at stake

Language on DisplayWriters, Fiction and Linguistic Culture in Post-Soviet RussiaIngunn Lunde (University of Bergen)

February 2018Pb £19.999781474431903

January 2018Hb £75.009781474421560

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• Demonstrates empirically how bilingualism can be thought of as a resource, drawing on data from a variety of sociolinguistic contexts

• Examines specific aspects of conversational organisation (such as turn-taking, sequence organisation, repair organisation) where language choice is used as a resource

• Investigates the role of language choice in bilingual conversation against the backdrop of clearly set out theoretical backgrounds

February 2018Pb £19.999781474431897

• Presents a pioneering study of Russian public debate• Offers a new approach to Russian modernisation

through a multidisciplinary view on language and society

• Includes detailed case studies of the past and present communicative successes and failures in various social groups

• Brings together an international team of contributors from Russia, UK, Israel and France

• Uses focus-group interviews, elite interviews, survey data and critical discourse analysis to focus study discourses

• Features a case study of Russian speakers in Latvia to add to the debate surrounding the status of Russian speakers outside Russia

• Focuses on the temporally contingent nature of discourse – discussing discursive change and the possibility that a discourse can exist

Russian Speakers in Post-Soviet LatviaDiscursive Identity StrategiesAmmon Cheskin (University of Glasgow)

August 2017Pb £19.999781474428507

248 pages

• Substantially revised second edition of the bestselling Scots dictionary

• Updated throughout to reflect modern Scots usage, alongside coverage of older Scots

• Combines accessible style, clear layout and durable hardback format

• Over 40,000 headwords: 23,000 full entries and 17,000 cross-references

• Extended pronunciation information and guide

Concise Scots Dictionary2nd editionScottish Language Dictionaries

October 2017Hb £29.999781474432313

912 pages


ContactThe Interaction of Closely Related Linguistic Varieties and the History of EnglishRobert McColl Millar (University of Aberdeen)

Bilingualism as Interactional PracticesJoseph Gafaranga (University of Edinburgh)

Public Debate in RussiaMatters of (Dis)orderEdited by Nikolai Vakhtin & Boris Firsov (both European University, St Petersburg)

hardback

Russian Language and Society



August 2017 Pb £24.999781474428514



160 pages


Scottish Language Dictionaries




This text comprehensively surveys and critically positions the main issues, theories and contemporary debates surrounding postfeminism. It covers the term’s underpinnings and critical contexts, its different meanings, as well as popular media representations. Adopting an inclusive and interdisciplinary approach, the text situates postfeminism in relation to earlier feminisms and addresses its manifestations in popular culture, academia, politics and brand culture. It brings to light the various meanings of postfeminism and highlights distinct postfeminist patterns, while opening up the category for future investigation.

PostfeminismCultural Texts and TheoriesStéphanie Genz (Nottingham Trent University) & Benjamin Brabon (Higher Education Academy)Essential reading for those seeking a wide-ranging understanding of postfeminism



This book introduces you clearly and succinctly to the ways in which feminist ideas have transformed the form and content of British women’s fiction and non-fiction writing. The Introduction sets out the critical background and the main feminist critical approaches to literature. This is followed by 5 chapters which outline feminist engagements with the canon, gender, the body, sexual difference and ethnicity to demonstrate the ways in which feminist ideas have affected the content of women’s literature. The next 5 chapters examine types of fiction writing: romance, crime, science fiction, life-writing and historical fiction, to show the effect of feminist ideas on the form of women’s literature.

Feminism and Women’s WritingAn IntroductionCatherine Riley (University of London) & Lynne Pearce (University of Lancaster)Outlines the key feminist debates on British women’s fiction since the ‘second wave’ and grounds them in examples of women’s writing



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2nd Edition

• Provides a clear overview of changing feminist debates and terms in the 20th and 21st centuries

• Shows the changing form of women’s fiction and non-fiction during this period

• Assesses the ways in which literary, political and mainstream cultures, as well as the book industry, have impacted on the work and ideas of female writers

• Includes a wide range of case studies as well as recommended further reading and a list of primary texts with each chapter

Twenty-First-Century Popular FictionEdited by Bernice Murphy & Stephen Matterson (both at Trinity College Dublin)Provides a unique snapshot of themes and trends within popular fiction in the twenty-first century



This groundbreaking collection captures the state of popular fiction in present day. It features twenty new essays on key authors associated with a wide range of genres and sub-genres, providing chapter-length discussions of major post-2000 works of contemporary popular fiction. The lively, accessible and academically rigorous essays presented here cover a wider range of established popular fiction genres such as fantasy, horror and the romance, as well as more niche areas such as Domestic Noir, Steampunk, the New Weird, Nordic Noir and Zombie Lit.

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New for this edition:

• Extended critical history of postfeminism• Engagement with a new postfeminist vocabulary

associated with post-recession• Close analysis of the impact of a recessionary

postfeminist stance

New for this edition:

Extended critical history of postfeminism

Engagement with a new postfeminist vocabulary associated with post-recession

Close analysis of the impact of a recessionary postfeminist stance

• Provides a timely and accessible overview of current trends within contemporary popular fiction

• Includes reassessments of recent fiction by established figures; Stephen King, George R.R. Martin, Larry McMurtry, Neil Gaiman, J.K. Rowling, Jodi Picoult, China Miéville, Grant Morrison, Terry Pratchett and Nora Roberts

• And authors who have emerged more recently; Stephenie Meyer, Gillian Flynn, E.L. James, Hugh Howey, Cherie Priest, and Max Brooks


This analytical introduction assesses contrasting definitions of black nationalism in America, thereby providing an overview of its development and varied manifestations across two centuries. Its aim is to evaluate historiographical debates and synthesize a broad range of scholarship, much of it published since the beginning of the new millennium. However, unlike some of that work, this book offers a critical perspective that avoids advocacy or condemnation of black nationalism by examining major black nationalist thinkers, leaders and organizations as well as discussing some lesser-known groups and figures, the nature of black nationalism’s appeal and the position of women in and their contributions to black nationalism.

Black Nationalism in American HistoryFrom the Nineteenth Century to the Million Man MarchMark Newman (University of Edinburgh)Provides a concise up-to-date introduction to and overview of black nationalism in American history


BAAS PaperbacksJanuary 2018 216 pages

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• Considers divergent definitions of black nationalism, providing an understanding of the nature of black nationalism

• Outlines historiography with an up-to-date assessment of key debates and leading scholarship

• Considers continuity, encouraging discussion of whether black nationalism was essentially unchanging or reflective of particular historical circumstances

• Looks beyond leading figures to understand how, why and when black nationalism gained support

London Writing in the 1930s offers a new perspective on the decade that has long been associated with the Auden generation and the rise of documentary. It argues for the centrality of urban fiction and photography to the decade’s experiments in representing daily life. Why the period’s London-set novels were so often described as ‘photographic’, and what kind of photographs inspired such comparisons?

London Writing of the 1930sAnna Cottrell (Independent Scholar)A lively account of London’s writing in the 1930s


Midcentury Modern WritersOctober 2017 216 pages11 b+w illustrations

• Argues that interrelationship between journalistic, photographic, and Naturalist models is key to the decade’s literary aesthetic

• Offers critical readings of neglected and forgotten 1930s writers such as Betty Miller, Norah Hoult, Storm Jameson

• Combines literary analysis with research into the cultural histories of 1930s London’s spaces of leisure

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Children’s literature research is now one of the most dynamic fields of literary criticism and of education, and has a bright future ahead as children’s writers and publishers invent yet more forms of literature for young people, and researchers find yet more sophisticated ways of exploring them. This collection takes informed and scholarly readers to the utmost frontier of children’s literature criticism, from the intricate worlds of children’s poetry, picturebooks and video games to the new theoretical constellations of critical plant studies, non-fiction studies and big data analyses of literature.

The Edinburgh Companion to Children’s LiteratureEdited by Clémentine Beauvais (University of York) & Maria Nikolajeva (University of Cambridge)Traces cutting-edge developments in children’s literature research


Edinburgh Companions to LiteratureOctober 2017 500 pages3 b+w illustrations

• Features the most recent directions in children’s literature theory and criticism

• Introduces the leading international scholars in the field as well as new emerging scholars

• Offers a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches, including a mixture of empirical and theoretical research, and analyses at the intersection of education and literary studies


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Women’s Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1690-1820sThe Long Eighteenth CenturyEdited by Jennie Batchelor (University of Kent) & Manushag Powell (Purdue University)Provides new perspectives on women’s print media in the long eighteenth centuryThis innovative volume presents for the first time collective expertise on women’s magazines and periodicals of the long eighteenth century. The essays here demonstrate the importance of periodicals to women, the importance of women to periodicals, and crucially, they correct the destructive misconception that the more canonized periodicals and popular magazines were enemy or discontinuous forms. This collection shows how both periodicals and women drove debates on politics, education, theatre, celebrity, social practice, popular reading, and everyday life itself.


The Edinburgh History of Women’s Periodical Culture in BritainJanuary 2018 448 pages16 b+w & 8 colour illustrations

• Presents major study of the key role women played as authors, editors, and readers of periodicals and magazines

• Features cutting-edge and interdisciplinary research by senior and early career specialists in the fields of periodical studies, material culture studies, theatre history, and cultural history

• Maps new directions in eighteenth-century and Romantic studies, women’s writing and media

• Moves British women’s print media to the centre of long eighteenth-century print culture

The Edinburgh Companion to Animal StudiesEdited by Lynn Turner (Goldsmiths, University of London), Undine Sellbach (Macquarie University) & Ron Broglio (Arizona State University)Provides new critical essays on key questions by world-leading scholars in Animal StudiesThe Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies critically investigates current topics and disciplines that are affected, enriched or put into dispute by the burgeoning scholarship on Animal Studies. What new questions and modes of research need come into play if we are to seriously acknowledge our entanglements with other animals? World-leading scholars from a range of disciplines, such as Comparative Literature, Philosophy, Art, Biosemiotics, Ethology and Geography, set the agenda for Animal Studies today.


Edinburgh Companions to LiteratureFebruary 2018 592 pages24 b+w illustrations

• Provides reflections on the trajectory of the field from prominent scholars in animal studies

• Embeds the ‘animal question’ as central to contemporary concerns across a wide range of disciplines

• Brings discourses from the sciences into dialogue with the arts and humanities

• Opens up new methods, alignments, directions and challenges for the future of animal studies

This volume re-examines some of the key concepts taken to define the fin de siècle, while also introducing hitherto overlooked cultural phenomena into the frame, such as the importance of humanitarianism. The impact of recent research in material culture is explored, particularly how the history of the book and the history of performance culture is changing our understanding of this period. Together, the essays provide new scholarly insights into British fin de siècle and enrich our understanding of this complex period.

The Edinburgh Companion to Fin de Siècle Literature, Culture and the ArtsEdited by Josephine M. Guy (University of Nottingham)Explores the significance of the British fin de siècle in Scotland and Ireland as well as some regional cities in England


Edinburgh Companions to LiteratureDecember 2017 320 pages28 b+w & 11 colour illustrations

• Re-examines key concepts taken to define the fin de siècle while introducing new concepts

• Examines how attention to material culture, the history of the book and history of performance culture, is changing our understanding of this period

• Discusses a range of cultural activities, from participation in avant-garde theatre to interior decoration, and from the writing of poetry to political and religious activism


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• Challenges the dominance of psychoanalytical approaches in children’s literature criticism

• Sets out a new agenda for how to analyse children’s fiction

• Covers popular texts and literary works to break down assumptions about literary ‘value’ and worth that circulate in literary criticism

• Combines historical overview of children’s literature and the Gothic with analysis of recent fiction and criticism

November 2017Hb £75.009781474430173

• Features original critical writing by established and emerging scholars

• Surveys the full range of American Gothic, from its earliest texts to 21st Century works

• Includes critical analyses of American Gothic in new media and technologies

• Will establish new benchmarks for the critical understanding of American Gothic traditions

• Revitalises the long-running debate about women, the Gothic and identity

• Engages with the political agendas of feminism and post-feminism

• Prioritises the concerns of woman as reader, author and critic

• Offers fresh readings of both classic and recent Gothic works

Women and the GothicAn Edinburgh CompanionEdited by Avril Horner (Kingston University) & Sue Zlosnik (Manchester Metropolitan University)

August 2017Pb £19.999781474425568

248 pages

Twenty-First-Century Children’s GothicFrom the Wanderer to Nomadic SubjectChloé Germaine Buckley (Manchester Metropolitan University)

American Gothic CultureAn Edinburgh CompanionEdited by Jason Haslam (Dalhousie University) & Joel Faflak (University of Western Ontario)

256 pages 256 pages2 b+w & 7 colour illustrations

August 2017Pb £19.999781474425551

This collection of new essays recovers and explores a neglected archive of women’s print media, and dispels the myth of the interwar decades as a retreat to ‘home and duty’ for women. Women produced magazines and periodicals ranging in forms and appeal from highbrow to popular, private circulation to mass-market, and radical to reactionary. The 1920s and 1930s gave rise to a plurality of new challenges and opportunities for women as consumers, workers and citizens, as well as wives and mothers. By restoring to view and analyzing the print media which served as the vehicles for debates about the arts, modern life, politics, economics and women’s roles in all these spheres, this collection makes a major contribution to revisionist scholarship on the interwar period.

Women’s Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939The Interwar PeriodEdited by Catherine Clay (Nottingham Trent University), Maria DiCenzo (Wilfrid Laurier University), Barbara Green (University of Notre Dame), Fiona Hackney (University of Wolverhampton)Provides new perspectives on women’s print media in interwar Britain


The Edinburgh History of Women’s Periodical Culture in BritainDecember 2017 448 pages25 b+w & 14 colour illustrations

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Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic

• Presents essays on women’s print media in interwar Britain, revealing the diversity of genres addressed to women readers

• Features innovative, interdisciplinary research by recognized specialists in the fields of literary and periodical studies, and women’s and cultural history.

• Recovers overlooked or marginalized media and archival sources, as well as reassessing well-known commercial titles

• Designed as a ‘go to’ resource both for readers new to the field and for specialists seeking the latest developments in this area of research


• Analyses different aspects of Shakespeare’s plays through the prism of early modern science

• Offers an innovative dialectic vision of the Shakespeare/science nexus

• Links science and spectacle and posits that early modern theatre fashioned the reception of early modern discoveries

• Pays attention to systems of thought which bind together scientific and literary discourses, practices and mentalities within a single episteme

September 2017Hb £80.009781474427814


Spectacular Science, Technology and Superstition in the Age of ShakespeareEdited by Sophie Chiari (Blaise Pascal University) & Mickaël Popelard (University of Caen-Basse Normandie)

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• Promotes a new understanding of ‘fugitive democracy’

• Establishes the presence of a form of alternative politics in early modern drama

• Explores how the parameters of contemporary radical politics take shape in major Shakespeare plays

February 2018Pb £24.999781474431552

Shakespeare’s Fugitive PoliticsThomas P. Anderson (Mississippi State University)

296 pages

• An understanding of the soul as not only a religious, cultural, and literary concept, but also a theatrical one

• A genealogy of the philosophical and theological traditions that inform the soul’s placement in the early modern era, from Plato to Protestantism

• Close readings of works of Shakespearean drama alongside more broadly understood modes of early modern practice, such as religious ritual, mourning, and memorialization

Second DeathTheatricalities of the Soul in Shakespeare’s DramaDonovan Sherman (Seton Hall University, New Jersey)

August 2017Pb £19.999781474426091

224 pages

• Provides a way past historicist methods in Shakespearean scholarship

• Transforms less the way Shakespeare’s tragedies are read and more the way they are perceived

• Introduces the promise of, while modelling ways to exercise, counterfactual scholarship in literary studies

August 2017Pb £19.999781474426046

Shakespeare in HindsightCounterfactual Thinking and Shakespearean TragedyAmir Khan (Liaoning Normal University-Missouri State University in Dalian, China)

248 pages

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Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and PhilosophyEdinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy

hardback, ebook

• Unique combination of digital annotation and traditional interpretive practices to offer insights into Shakespeare’s soliloquies and solo asides

• Based on a new type of data that allows for dependable and transparent generalisations about Shakespeare’s habitual practices, and significant departures from these practices, over time and across subgenres

• Sheds new light on a number of Shakespeare plays, from early comedies to mature tragedies and late romances

February 2018Pb £19.999781474431637

The Shakespearean InsideA Study of the Complete Soliloquies and Solo AsidesMarcus Nordlund (University of Gothenburg)

256 pages18 b+w tables 7 b+w line art


• Offers a fresh insight into the internal workings and motivations of Shakespeare and Jonson’s dramatic structures

• Opens a new window on the ambitions, concerns, and fears of these important authors

• Enhances historical understanding of the structures of authority within which the drama was produced, and the place of the informer in those structures

February 2018Pb £19.999781474431606

Metadrama and the Informer in Shakespeare and JonsonBill Angus (Massey University)

240 pages



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• Provides the first account of the place of judgment in Shakespearean drama

• Offers a fresh perspective on the imaginative relationship between law, religion, and aesthetics in Shakespeare’s plays

• Models new ways of putting the plays’ historical and philosophical contexts into conversation

Shakespeare and JudgmentEdited by Kevin Curran (University of Lausanne)

February 2018Pb £19.999781474431613

256 pages

• Includes in almost equal proportion British and American authors and is transatlantic in scope

• Moves well beyond the five canonical British romantic poets, on whom considerable work has been done concerning their relation to classical literature

• Includes studies of African American and women writers

The Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic AgeEdited by Kevin Van Anglen (Boston University) & James Engell (Harvard University)

October 2017Hb £80.009781474429641

432 pagess1 b+w illustrations

• Describes a distinctive Scottish medical culture of the Romantic-era and its synergistic relationship with literary culture

• Advances our understanding of the medical content of key periodicals of the nineteenth century

• Draws upon extensive archival and bibliographical research to reclaim several previously neglected medico-literary figures

February 2018Pb £19.999781474431620

256 pages

Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical PressBlackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 1817-1858

Megan Coyer (University of Glasgow)



Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism

• Invites new attention to the theatre as something heard, rather than as something seen, in performance

• Provides a model for understanding aesthetic forms as developing in competitive response to one another in particular historical circumstances

• Enriches our sense of early modern playgoers’ auditory experience, and of dramatists’ attempt to shape it

Listening for Theatrical Form in Early Modern EnglandAllison Deutermann (City University of New York)

August 2017Pb £19.999781474426084



Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture

• Includes an extended essay on the development of the text as well as lines omitted from previous editions of the poem

• Based on new archival research it provides critically edited text and extensive annotations

• Includes Historical Note, Explanatory Notes and a full glossary of Scots, foreign and archaic words

MarmionA Tale of Flodden FieldEdited by Ainsley McIntosh (Walter Scott Research Centre at the University of Aberdeen)

October 2017Hb £150.009781474425193

464 pages

The Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott’s Poetry

hardback, ebook

• Engages with the critical frameworks of cultural geography, cartography, and the burgeoning field of oceanic studies

• Reformulates theories of colonization and empire in the Romantic period

• Puts canonical poetry in dialogue with travel tales and prophetic tracts

February 2018Pb £19.999781474426121

Radical RomanticsProphets, Pirates, and the Space Beyond NationTalissa Ford (Temple University)





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• Adds to our understanding of the ‘discovery of Scotland’ in the 18th and early 19th century, developing a new account of the literary, aesthetic and geological meanings of ‘the land of mountain and flood’ in the period

• Offers new insights about James Hutton’s geological theory by attending to his geological travel writing about Scotland

• Builds on previous work on the literariness of scientific writing in the ‘second scientific revolution’

Discovering the Footsteps of TimeGeological Travel Writing about Scotland, 1700-1820Tom Furniss (University of Strathclyde)

January 2018Hb £80.009781474410014

• Develops new understanding of Romanticism as political movement

• Offers fresh readings of canonical works by Coleridge, Wordsworth, Godwin, Mary Shelley and Carlyle

• Shows that the philosophical routes of Romanticism and its ties to German Idealism originate in empiricism

August 2017Pb £19.999781474426060

The Politics of RomanticismThe Social Contract and LiteratureZoe Beenstock (University of Haifa)



• Challenges and transforms existing narratives of the modern formation of the ‘lyric’ genre

• Offers innovative analysis of aestheticist poetry from the 1860s to the early years of the twentieth century

• Provides three fresh theoretical frames to examine the relationship between poetry and modernity

• Includes case studies featuring a range of literary figures such as D. G. Rossetti, Alice Meynell, Thomas Hardy, Michael Field, Arthur Symons, A. C. Swinburne and Ezra Pound

The Lyric Poem and AestheticismForms of ModernityMarion Thain (New York University)

February 2018Pb £24.999781474431576


• Reveals the ways in which the couples promoted progressive socio-political ideas

• Draws on extensive archival research and analyses unpublished writings, including diaries and poems

• Focuses on neglected female figures in creative partnerships to challenge longstanding perceptions of them as the submissive or subordinate wives of famous Victorian artists

December 2017Hb £75.009781474421454

256 pages13 b+w &17 colour illustrations

Suffragist Artists in PartnershipGender, Word and Image

Lucy Ella Rose (University of Surrey)


Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism

hardback, ebook

hardback, ebook

Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture



• Recovers the richness of the historical novel and history writing before Walter Scott, including the contribution of women writers to this debate

• Explores how historical fiction probes anxieties at the rise of commerce, the question of empire, and radical political change

• Rewrites our understanding of Scott and his relation to the earlier British historical novel

Reinventing LibertyNation, Commerce and the Historical Novel from Walpole to ScottFiona Price (University of Chichester)

August 2017Pb £19.999781474426077




• Describes and analyses the literary marketplace and periodical press of British India

• Reassesses Kipling’s works in the context of a long-standing literary tradition of British India

• Analyses the interactions between metropolitan and colonial literary cultures, and the impact of canonical texts on peripheral marketplaces

• Examines Victorian concepts of the colonial relationship in the light of both established and previously unstudied writers of British India

British India and Victorian Literary CultureMáire ni Fhlathúin (University of Nottingham)

August 2017Pb £24.999781474426039

272 pages




litErAry studiEs

• First book-length examination of self-harm in Victorian literary fiction

• Examines that Victorian self-harm (broadly speaking) can be traced through an engagement with literary fiction long before its emergence as a clinical category of behavior in the twentieth century

• Reappraisal of New Woman studies, which, over the past decade has largely focused on the diversity of New Woman politics and authorship

November 2017Hb £75.009781474417686

Self-Harm in New Woman WritingAlexandra Gray (University of Portsmouth)

224 pages

• Original approach to Conan Doyle as a ‘popular modernist’

• Analyses many forgotten and neglected novels, short stories, letters, pamphlets and non-fiction pieces

• Provides new periodical context by using forgotten material from the Strand to situate the work of Conan Doyle within their historical moment

• Draws on original research into the artistic and business history of the Strand magazine

Twentieth-Century VictorianArthur Conan Doyle and the Strand Magazine, 1891-1930Jonathan Cranfield (Liverpool John Moores University)

August 2017Pb £24.999781474426107

• Traces the Pacific islands as represented through the lens of British fiction and non-fiction across the long nineteenth century

• Examines texts written by Pacific islanders and published in the British press

• Significantly broadens our understanding of the British Pacific by analysing understudied Pacific texts and authors alongside more canonical works

August 2017Pb £19.999781474426114

Dark ParadisePacific Islands in the Nineteenth-Century British ImaginationJennifer Fuller (Idaho State University)


256 pages

• Presents a stylistic analysis of a major Victorian novelist• Reads Victorian literature through the lens of German

Romanticism• Presents a panorama of Victorian intellectual debates

on colonialism, economics, nationalism, the classics, pedagogy, legal reform, and urban sociability

• Examines the writings from the last decade of Trollope’s life that have received only scant critical attention, such as his novellas and his biographies

Anthony Trollope’s Late StyleVictorian Liberalism and Literary FormFrederik Van Dam (University of Leuven, Belgium)

August 2017Pb £19.999781474426053

192 pages

• Argues for the connections among discourses about film, phonography, digital media, and literature in the twentieth century through the recurrent invocations of hieroglyphs

• Shows how novelists and film theorists in the modernist period defined their respective media in relation to each other

• Shifts the focus in accounts of visual languages in modernism from China, poetry, and the avant-garde to Egypt, narrative, and film

December 2017Hb £80.009781474424776


Hieroglyphic ModernismsWriting and New Media in the Twentieth Century

Jesse Schotter (Ohio State University)




Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture


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Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture


• Fashions an independent aesthetic for modernist writers and texts that challenges many high modernist qualities promoted by James Joyce and T. S. Eliot

• Provides new connections between philosophy/critical theory and modernist culture

• Introduces key ideas, characters and techniques that allow the baroque to be used as both a conceptual and historical framework for analysing modernist achievements

December 2017Hb £75.009781474419628

Modernism and the Theatre of the BaroqueKate Armond (Independent Scholar)

256 pages

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Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism, Drama and Performance


litErAry studiEs

• Relates modernism to the intersubjective dimension of society

• Sets out a new perspective on proletarian literature in Britain, releasing it from limiting conceptions of working class authenticity or Soviet-imposed socialist realism

• Shows how modernism and proletarian literature were linked products of the (broadly) fin-de-siècle emergence of the unconscious that fractured nineteenth-century grand narratives

September 2017Hb £75.009781474415828

The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist QuestionNick Hubble (Brunel University London)

224 pages

• The first academic and critical study wholly devoted to the topic of Conrad and language, and the first to address that topic from a diversity of critical approaches

• Speaks to a range of current trends in literary criticism including transnationalism, lateness, translation studies, terrorism and disabilities studies

• Employs a variety of approaches including philosophy, psychoanalytical theory, biographical theory, as well as textually driven readings

Conrad and LanguageEdited by Katherine Isobel Baxter (Northumbria University) & Robert Hampson (Royal Holloway, University of London)

August 2017Pb £19.999781474425575

232 pages

• Includes contributions by both English and Russian scholars

• Explores Mansfield’s personal and artistic response to Russian literature, culture, philosophy, and art

• Explores her responses to the actual Russians she met in England and — towards the end of her life — in France

Katherine Mansfield and RussiaEdited by Gerri Kimber (University of Northampton), W. Todd Martin (University of Huntington, Indiana, USA.) & Galya Diment (University of Washington)

August 2017Hb £80.009781474410014


• Brings together the most recent research undertaken by foremost Sinclair scholars and early-career researchers

• Considers Sinclair’s contribution to contemporary aesthetic and philosophical debates about the nature and representation of human identity

• Explores a wide range of Sinclair’s work, including fiction, psychology, philosophy and short stories

May SinclairRe-Thinking Bodies and MindsEdited by Rebecca Bowler (Keele University) & Claire Drewery (Sheffield Hallam University)

February 2018Pb £19.999781474431521

256 pages

• Includes 24 original essays divided into thematic sections: modernism, theory, editing, introducing, and performing and covers Beckett’s drama, staging, fiction, poetry and prose

• Unique collection of Beckett scholarship by a leading Beckett critic and theatre director brought together for the first time

• New introductory essay reflecting on the development of Beckett scholarship

February 2018Pb £24.999781474431514

288 pages

Beckett MattersEssays on Beckett’s Late Modernism

S.E. Gontarski (Florida State University)

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Katherine Mansfield Studies

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• Discusses Beckett’s relationship with three painters crucial to his life-long dialogue with the visual arts

• Examines the paintings that Beckett would have known and on which he based his critical remarks

• Accounts for the increasing visuality of Beckett’s theatre in relation to his evolving appreciation of painting and the formal questions posed by that medium

February 2018Pb £24.999781474431491

Beckett’s ThingPainting and TheatreDavid Lloyd (University of California, Riverside)

272 pages13 b+w & 49 colour illustrations

Other Becketts



litErAry studiEs

• The first narrative analysis of mid-twentieth century British spy thrillers demonstrating their critiques of political responses to the dangers of Fascism, Nazism, and Communism

• Combines research in history and political theory with literary and film analysis

• Adds interpretive complexity to understanding the political content of modern cultural production

Espionage and ExileFascism and Anti-Fascism in British Spy Fiction and FilmPhyllis Lassner (Northwestern University)

February 2018Pb £24.999781474431477


• Original study of Susan Sontag’s contribution to the development of critical thought

• Discusses Sontag’s collaboration with Walter Benjamin which reopens the question of the author and encourages an understanding of this concept from a psychoanalytic perspective, as a transgenerational phenomenon

• Includes a discussion of the role of the American avant-garde in Sontag’s abandonment of philosophy and in her turn to a pioneering, more theoretical literary criticism

In the Archive of LongingSusan Sontag’s Critical ModernismMena Mitrano (Loyola University Chicago)

August 2017Pb £19.999781474425605


• Sets out a new way to think about both music and poetry

• Uses each ‘cousin’ art-form to cast light on the other as a whole: it is not just for poet-musicians, or musicians writing for voice

• A ‘joint’ perspective: written by an award-winning poet who was formerly a professional musician

Lyric CousinsPoetry and Musical FormFiona Sampson (University of Roehampton)

February 2018Pb £19.999781474432627

240 pages7 musical quotations

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• The first monograph on this key contemporary writer that analyses texts from throughout her career

• A series of analyses of Davis’s major translations and how her work interacts with them

• A rethinking of the role of translation in literary production and the boundaries between translating and writing

The Many Voices of Lydia DavisTranslation, Rewriting, IntertextualityJonathan Evans (University of Portsmouth)

February 2018Pb £19.999781474431569

176 pages

• Provides a strong conceptual underpinning for the notion of empathy, drawing on phenomenology and feminist affect theory

• Relates the idea of empathy not only to the clinical relation but also to medicine more broadly defined

• Repositions literature’s role in the medical humanities from a vehicle to access patient experience to a strategic intervention into current debates on empathy and its effects

Medicine and Empathy in Contemporary British FictionAn Intervention in Medical HumanitiesAnne Whitehead (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)

October 2017Hb £75.009780748686186

256 pages

• Opens up the category of illness narrative to consider a wide variety of media/artistic forms beyond literature

• Intervenes in current debates in medical humanities/medical education by emphasising more critical as opposed to instrumental approaches

• Explores different physical and mental illness experiences in both autobiographical and collaborative/relational narratives

August 2017Pb £24.999781474425582


Illness as Many NarrativesArts, Medicine and Culture

Stella Bolaki (University of Kent)


Edinburgh Critical Studies in Literary Translation

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litErAry studiEs

• Offers a critical overview of the full range of Lessing’s work

• Provides new readings of an unprecedented range of Lessing’s writing, including previously unstudied archive material

• Situates Lessing in relation to new literary and cultural contexts, including the nineteenth-century novel-series, cinema, and post-war youth culture

February 2018Pb £19.999781474431484

Doris Lessing and the Forming of HistoryEdited by Kevin Brazil (University of Southampton), David Sergeant (University of Plymouth) & Tom Sperlinger (University of Bristol)

256 pages

• Considers a wide assortment of fiction, poetry, drama and film of the 1990s within the broader political and cultural context of Great Britain

• Supplies a thematically oriented account of major aspects of contemporary literature, including ethnicity, class, celebrity and speculative work

• Deals with literature from Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England, both in relation to each other and within the larger cultural environment of Great Britain

Literature of the 1990sEndings and BeginningsPeter Marks (University of Sydney)

January 2018Hb £75.009781474411592

• Brings Humanities-based perspectives to bear upon topical debates in automobilities research

• Introduces a new concept for understanding our journeys made my car by focusing on the driver’s automotive consciousness rather than utility/function

• Makes use of auto-ethnography to explore and theorise automotive consciousness

• Draws upon a rich archive of literary texts from across the twentieth-century

February 2018Pb £19.999781474431460

DrivetimeLiterary Excursions in Automotive ConsciousnessLynne Pearce (University of Lancaster)

256 pages256 pages12 b+w illustrations


The Edinburgh History of Twentieth-Century Literature in Britain

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• Critically engages with some aspects of contemporary theory that keep propounding a Cartesian notion of the mind’s control over the body

• Analyses how key thinkers such as Spinoza, Benjamin, Pasolini and Freud attempt to re-evaluate what Agamben calls ‘bare life’

• Offers original readings of Pasolini’s notion of scandalo in terms of contamination

August 2017Pb £19.999781474425599

ContaminationsBeyond Dialectics in Modern Literature, Science and FilmMichael Mack (Durham University)

240 pages

• Spans two centuries to tell the history of a neglected genre that includes major and marginal authors

• Combines new formalism in literary criticism to scholarship in American Studies

• Constructs a history of community, family, and temporality in American culture

The American Short Story CycleJennifer J. Smith (Franklin College)

December 2017Hb £75.009781474423939

• Multi-disciplinary study of the cultural legacy of the Paris Commune in both mainstream and leftist U.S. memory

• Contributes to recent work on the global dimensions of pre-Popular front radical culture in the US

• Addresses a critical ongoing blind spot in American Studies by extending the borders of transatlantic affiliation beyond the confines of Anglo-American attachments

February 2018Pb £19.999781474431583

Sensational InternationalismThe Paris Commune and the Remapping of American Memory in the Long Nineteenth CenturyJ. Michelle Coghlan (University of Manchester)



Edinburgh Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures



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